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Dynamic skin deformation using finite difference solutions for character animation.

Chaudhry, E., Bian, S., Ugail, H., Jin, X., You, L. and Zhang, J. J., 2015. Dynamic skin deformation using finite difference solutions for character animation. Computers and Graphics, 46, 294 - 305 .

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2014.09.029

Abstract

We present a new skin deformation method to create dynamic skin deformations in this paper. The core elements of our approach are a dynamic deformation model, an efficient data-driven finite difference solution, and a curve-based representation of 3D models. We first reconstruct skin deformation models at different poses from the taken photos of a male human arm movement to achieve real deformed skin shapes. Then, we extract curves from these reconstructed skin deformation models. A new dynamic deformation model is proposed to describe physics of dynamic curve deformations, and its finite difference solution is developed to determine shape changes of the extracted curves. In order to improve visual realism of skin deformations, we employ data-driven methods and introduce skin shapes at the initial and final poses into our proposed dynamic deformation model. Experimental examples and comparisons made in this paper indicate that our proposed dynamic skin deformation technique can create realistic deformed skin shapes efficiently with a small data size.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0097-8493
Uncontrolled Keywords:Dynamic skin deformations ; Curve-based representation ; Finite difference solution ; Data-driven methods
Group:Faculty of Media & Communication
ID Code:22753
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:10 Nov 2015 16:58
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:53

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