Using nonlinear dimensionality reduction in 3D figure animation

  • Authors:
  • A. Elizabeth Seward;Bobby Bodenheimer

  • Affiliations:
  • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 43rd annual Southeast regional conference - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper explores a method for re-sequencing an existing set of animation, specifically motion capture data, to generate new motion. Re-using animation is helpful in designing virtual environments and creating video games for reasons of cost and efficiency. This paper demonstrates that through nonlinear dimensionality reduction and frame re-sequencing, visually compelling motion can be produced from a set of motion capture data. The technique presented uses Isomap and ST-Isomap to reduce the dimensionality of the data set. Two distance metrics for nonlinear dimensionality reduction are compared as well as the effect of global degrees of freedom on the visual appeal of the newly generated motion.