Journal
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/2898350
Keywords
Algorithms; Animated shape approximation; simplification; abstraction
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- European Commission under Harvest4D [FP7-323567]
- Intel VCI at Saarland University
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Performance capture systems are used to acquire high-quality animated 3D surfaces, usually in form of a dense 3D triangle mesh. Extracting a more compact yet faithful representation is often desirable, but existing solutions for animated sequences are surface based, which leads to a limited approximation power in the case of extreme simplification. We introduce animated sphere-meshes, which are meshes indexing a set of animated spheres. Our solution is the first to output an animated volumetric structure to approximate animated 3D surfaces and optimizes for the sphere approximation, connectivity, and temporal coherence. As a result, our algorithm produces a multiresolution structure from which a level of simplification can be selected in real time, preserving a faithful approximation of the input, even at the coarsest levels. We demonstrate the use of animated sphere-meshes for low-cost approximate collision detection. Additionally, we propose a skinning decomposition, which automatically rigs the input mesh to the chosen level of detail. The resulting set of weights are smooth, compress the animation, and enable easy edits.
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