Real-Time avatar animation steered by live body motion

Authors:
Oliver Schreer;Ralf Tanger;Peter Eisert;Peter Kauff;Bernhard Kaspar;Roman Englert
Affiliations:
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications/Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications/Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications/Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications/Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany;T-Systems International GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany;Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories, Berlin, Germany
Venue:
ICIAP'05 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Image Analysis and Processing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The future customer service provided by call centres will be changed due to new web-based interactive multimedia technologies. Technical support will be offered in a completely new way by using advanced image processing technologies and natural representation of virtual humans. We present a prototype system of an animated avatar, which is steered by live body motion of the operator in a call centre. The hand and head motion is transferred directly to the avatar at the customer side in order to support a more natural representation of the virtual human. The system tracks the operators hands and the head motion quite robust in real-time without specific initialization based on a monocular camera.