Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions

 
 
Abstract This paper presents a physics-based method for creating complex multi-character motions from short single-character sequences. We represent multi-character motion synthesis as a spacetime optimization problem where constraints represent the desired character interactions. We extend standard spacetime optimization with a novel timewarp parameterization in order to jointly optimize the motion and the interaction constraints. In addition, we present an optimization algorithm based on block coordinate descent and continuations that can be used to solve large problems multiple characters usually generate. This framework allows us to synthesize multi-character motion drastically different from the input motion. Consequently, a small set of input motion dataset is sufficient to express a wide variety of multi-character motions. Paper  Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions, C. Karen Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoran Popovic, ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2006 Video  Quicktime (11.9M) Bibtex @Inproceedings{Liu:2006:CCO, author = "C. Karen Liu and Aaron Hertzmann and Zoran Popovi\'{c}", title = "Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions", booktitle = "ACM SIGGRAPH/Ehrographics Symposium on Computer Animation", year = 2006, month = sep, } Project members C. Karen Liu Aaron Hertzmann Zoran Popovic http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/composite.pdfhttp://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/composite.pdfhttp://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/composite.pdfhttp://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/composite.pdfhttp://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/composition.movHome.htmlhttp://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~hertzman/http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/composite.pdfhttp://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/composition.movshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7