We create an individualized body from three views of a person. (Front, side and back views). We take two additional photos focusing on a face(Front,side) if we like to see detailed facial shape and animation. It is ongoing project (almost finishing) and the meanwhile result are shown below. We use a generic body in H-anim format and export into VRML file for animation.ref. H-anim version 1.1

Characteristics

• Photo-realistic looking

• Reconstruction doesn't need any special setting (no special background)

• Easy and fast reconstruction & visualization

• Continuous Mesh

• Support all joints in H-Anim 1.1

• The output in VRML 2.0 format. Animation immediate

• Detailed face structure with animation function

• Full integration of face cloning and body cloning

Related publications

• Won-Sook Lee, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, "Head Modeling from Pictures and Morphing in 3D with Image Metamorphosis based on triangulation", Proc. Captech98 (Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments), (Springer LNAI LNCS Press), Geneva, pp.254-267, 1998.

• Won-Sook Lee, Jin Gu, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, "Generating Animatable 3D Virtual Humans from Photographs", accepted in Eurographics 2000

• Takao Furakawa, Jin Gu, Won-Sook Lee, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, "3D Clothes Modling from Photo Cloned Human Body", accepted in Virtual Worlds 2000

Generic model in continuous mesh where the skin parts are smoothly connected. It has 94 skeleton joints and 12 skin parts besides head, hands and feet.

Animation examples

• Motion star and Java script: Thanks to Christian Bapski for animation.

Vicon and 3D SMax: Thanks to Hyewon Seo for 3D SMax.