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Sketch-Based Interface for Crowd Animation

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Smart Graphics (SG 2009)

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In this paper, we propose a novel interface for controlling crowd animation. Crowd animation is widely used in movie production and computer games. However, to make an intended crowd animation, a lot of agent model parameters have to be tuned through trial and error. Our method estimates crowd parameters based on a few example paths given by a user through a sketch-based interface. The parameters include guiding paths, moving speed, distance between agents, and adjustments of the distance (crowd regularity). Based on the computed parameters, a crowd animation is generated using an agent model. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method through our experiments.

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  1. Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8502, Japan

    Masaki Oshita & Yusuke Ogiwara

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  1. Masaki Oshita
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  1. Institut für Informatik, LFE Medieninformatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amalienstrs 17, 80333, München, Germany

    Andreas Butz

  2. Simon Fraser University at Surrey, 13450 102 Avenue, BC V3T 5X3, Surrey, Canada

    Brian Fisher

  3. Equipe BUNRAKU, Maître de Conférences – Détaché à l’INRIA Rennes, IRISA-INRIA Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Marc Christie

  4. Institute for Geoinformatics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Antonio Krüger

  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

    Patrick Olivier

  6. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008, Salamanca, Espana, Spain

    Roberto Therón

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Oshita, M., Ogiwara, Y. (2009). Sketch-Based Interface for Crowd Animation. In: Butz, A., Fisher, B., Christie, M., Krüger, A., Olivier, P., Therón, R. (eds) Smart Graphics. SG 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02115-2_22

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