FigureReshaper - A Maya Plugin

By Xueyin Wan, Liang Peng

CIS 660 Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics and Animation

Instructor: Stephen Lane

University of Pennsylvania

Paper

• Shizhe Zhou, Hongbo Fu, Ligang Liu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Xiaoguang Ha. Parametric Reshaping of Human Bodies in Images. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 4, Article 126, Publication date: July 2010.
• N. Hasler, C. Stoll, M. Sunkel, B. Rosenhahn, and H.-P. Seidel. A Statistical Model of Human Pose and Body Shape. EUROGRAPHICS 2009 / P. Dutré and M. Stamminger.
• Ilya Baran, Jovan Popovic. Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 conference proceedings.

Screenshots

Presesntation

High Concepts

The project is to create a very convenient tool that could allow users conveniently adjust body pose and shape to their desired effects. Users only need to adjust a small set of parameters, such as weight and height, and could get very satisfactory results .

Language/Third Party Library

• C++ for main algorithm implementation and MEL for UI development.
• Eigen Library added to deal with matrix calculation.

Algorithms and Techniques Used

• Automatic Rigging
• Relative Rotation Encoding
• PCA(Principal Component Analysis)
• Regression
• Relative Rotation Decoding

Roadmap

Acknowledgement

@INPROCEEDINGS{HasStoSunRosSei09,
  author = {N. Hasler and C. Stoll and M. Sunkel and B. Rosenhahn and H.-P. Seidel},
  title = {A Statistical Model of Human Pose and Body Shape},
  booktitle = {Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics 2008)},
  year = 2009,
  editor = {P. Dutr{'e} and M. Stamminger},
  volume = 2,
  number = 28,
  address = {Munich, Germany},
  month = MAR
}