Animating an articulated 3D character currently requires manual rigging to specify its
internal skeletal structure and to define how the input motion deforms its surface. We present …

Curve-skeletons are a 1D subset of the medial surface of a 3D object and are useful for
many visualization tasks including virtual navigation, reduced-model formulation …

A curve-skeleton of a 3D object is a stick-like figure or centerline representation of that
object. It is used for diverse applications, including virtual colonoscopy and animation. In this …

We present a method for extracting a hierarchical, rigid skeleton from a set of example
poses. We then use this skeleton to not only reproduce the example poses, but create new …

Representing a 3D shape by a set of 1D curves that are locally symmetric with respect to its
boundary (ie, curve skeletons) is of importance in several machine intelligence tasks. This …

A curve skeleton is a compact representation of 3D objects and has numerous applications.
It can be used to describe an object's geometry and topology. In this paper, we introduce a …

Current approaches to skeleton generation are based on topological and geometrical
information only; this can be insufficient for realistic character animation, since the location of …

Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for estimating the joint structure of a human
body. The apparatus includes a multi-view image acquisition unit for receiving multi-view …

This paper presents a novel skeleton-based method for deforming meshes (using an
approximate skeleton, rather than a precise medial axis). The significant difference from …

We present a new rigging and skinning method which uses a database of partial rigs
extracted from a set of source characters. Given a target mesh and a set of joint locations …