“Capturing and Animating Occluded Cloth” by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 25
Title:
- Capturing and Animating Occluded Cloth
Company / Institution / Agency:
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Description:
This video demonstrates results from a new method for cloth motion capture that can produce detailed surface meshes for full garments. Traditionally, capturing complicated deforming surfaces such as cloth has been difficult due to substantial self-occlusion and folding. The method in this video overcomes these problems by preserving physical characteristics of the cloth and filling holes using a data-driven model. Examples include a dancing actor in a full garment, a heavily wrinkled sleeve, and a rag interacting with a solid object. It also demonstrates re-use applications of cloth capture data by binding skeletal mocap data to a data-driven skinning system.
Hardware:
Foculus FO214C, Nikon D200, Nikon D50, Perfection sewing machine kit
Software:
MATLAB, modo, LightWave, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, custom software
Additional Contributors:
Keenan Crane: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ryan White: University of California, Berkeley
David Forsyth: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
