A mobile environment for sketching-based skeleton generation

作者：Zheng Qingzheng; Li Frederick W B^*

来源：World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems, 2011, 14(3): 261-279.

DOI：10.1007/s11280-010-0104-2

• sketching-based skeleton generation
• web-based collaboration
• mesh editing in a mobile environment

Articulated character animation is typically performed by manually creating and rigging a skeleton into an unfolded 3D object. However, such tasks are not trivial, as they require a substantial amount of training and practices. Although automatic skeleton extraction methods have been proposed, they generally may not guarantee that the resulting skeleton can help produce desired animations according to user intention. In this paper, we present a sketching-based skeleton generation method suitable for use in the mobile environment. This method takes user sketching as an input, and based on the mesh segmentation result of a 3D object, it estimates a skeleton for articulated character animation. In addition, we are currently developing a Web-based mobile platform to support mesh editing by a group of collaborative users and we depict the system architecture of such a platform. Results show that our method can produce better skeletons in terms of joint positions and topological structure.

• 出版日期2011-5