KINEMATIC SYNTHESIS OF AVATAR SKELETONS FROM VISUAL DATA

The recovery of 3D models from visual data generally results in a geometric skeleton that is a simplification of the shape of the captured figure, called an avatar. In this paper, we introduce a method called hierarchical kinematic synthesis that identifies an articulated skeleton, called kinematic skeleton, which provides a compact representation of the movement of the tracked subject.

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