Through-the-eyes control of a virtual humano?

Nicolas Courty (1, 2) , E. Marchand (3) , Bruno Arnaldi (2)

1 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement
2 SIAMES - Computer generated images, animation, modeling and simulation
3 VISTA - Vision spatio-temporelle et active

The aim of this paper is to present a new animation technique to control a humano?in a virtual environment. This control technique is issued from a need to simplify input parameters for automatic generation of motions, according to the simulation of the visual perception for a synthetic humano? The proposed method is founded on an image-based technique or more commonly called in the robotic field visual servoing. It consists in controlling the humano?s motions through the image it ``perceives''. This approach is dedicated to highly reactive contexts (video games, virtual reality), as far as it is based on a closed loop system. We also discuss of the integration of such a technique in a more complex behavioural system.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Nicolas Courty, E. Marchand, Bruno Arnaldi. Through-the-eyes control of a virtual humano?. IEEE Computer Animation 2001, 2001, Seoul, Korea, France. pp.74-83. ⟨inria-00352123⟩