Mesh decomposition using motion information from animation sequences: Animating Geometrical Models

  • Authors:
  • Tong-Yee Lee;Ping-Hsien Lin;Shaur-Uei Yan;Chun-Hao Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Graphics Group/Visual System Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds - CASA 2005
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In computer graphics, mesh decomposition is a fundamental problem and it can benefit many applications. In this paper, we propose a novel mesh decomposition algorithm using motion information derived from a given animation sequence. The proposed algorithm first use principal component analysis (PCA) to construct a compact representation of a given animation sequence. Next, from this representation, we derive several motion parameters including motion complexity and similarity. Finally, we decompose a given mesh into sub-meshes using derived motion information and subdivide the triangles along the cutting paths for the smoother borders between the mesh parts. Our experimental results show that this new decomposition scheme can bring the benefit of good compression ratios on animation sequences. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.