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Learning the Stylistic Similarity Between Human Motions

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2006)

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This paper presents a computational model of stylistic similarity between human motions that is statistically derived from a comprehensive collection of captured, stylistically similar motion pairs. In this model, a set of hypersurfaces learned by single-class SVM and kernel PCA characterize the region occupied by stylistically similar motion pairs in the space of all possible pairs. The proposed model is further applied to a system for adapting an existing clip of human motion to a new environment, where stylistic distortion is avoided by enforcing stylistic similarity of the synthesized motion to the existing motion. The effectiveness of the system has been verified by 18 distinct adaptations, which produced walking, jumping, and running motions that exhibit the intended styles as well as the intended contact configurations.

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  1. Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

    Yu-Ren Chien & Jing-Sin Liu

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Intel, 95052, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Ara Nefian

  7. University of California, 430, Computer Science Building, 92697-3425, Irvine, CA, USA

    Gopi Meenakshisundaram

  8. Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization, P.O. Box

    Valerio Pascucci

  9. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech

    Jiri Zara

  10. Rockwell Scientific, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, 91360, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

    Jose Molineros

  11. Computer Graphics Group, Bielefeld University, D-33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Holger Theisel

  12. Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Tom Malzbender

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Chien, YR., Liu, JS. (2006). Learning the Stylistic Similarity Between Human Motions. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11919476_18

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