INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF MOTION VARIANTS

Jonathan Eisenmann, Matthew Lewis, Bryan Cline

2009

Abstract

This paper presents an intuitive method for novice users to interactively design custom populations of stylized, heterogeneous motion, from one input motion clip, thus allowing the user to amplify an existing database of motions. We allow the user to set up lattice deformers which are used by a genetic algorithm to manipulate the animation channels of the input motion and create new motion variations. Our interactive evolutionary design environment allows the user to traverse the available space of possible motions, presents the user with populations of motion, and gradually converges to a satisfactory set of solutions. Each generated motion sequence can undergo a motion filtering process subject to user-specified, high-level metrics to produce a result crafted to fit the designer’s interest.

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Eisenmann J., Lewis M. and Cline B. (2009). INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF MOTION VARIANTS . In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-014-6, pages 127-134. DOI: 10.5220/0002320301270134


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@conference{icec09,
author={Jonathan Eisenmann and Matthew Lewis and Bryan Cline},
title={INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF MOTION VARIANTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={127-134},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002320301270134},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009)
TI - INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN OF MOTION VARIANTS
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
AU - Eisenmann J.
AU - Lewis M.
AU - Cline B.
PY - 2009
SP - 127
EP - 134
DO - 10.5220/0002320301270134