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Human Motion Transfer
Heads: Takeo Kanade and Simon Baker
Contact: Takeo Kanade (tk@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Virtualized Reality^TM

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - November 2006.

Consider the following scenario: in a room equipped with multiple cameras, we record videos of two people doing (separately) two different motions. Using the recorded videos of these two people, we produce videos of each person doing the other person's motion. In this project, we have developed a vision-based system for doing exactly this; i.e. transfering the motion of one person to a second person. There are three steps in this human motion transfer system: (1) kinematic modeling (i.e. building a 3D model of each person with precise shape and accurate joint locations), (2) motion tracking (i.e. tracking the motion of each person from the recorded video) and finally (3) motion rendering (i.e. rendering images of the person performing the new motion using color information from the recorded video). These steps are illustrated in the following figure:

The details of the first two steps can be found in our webpage describing our Human Kinematic Modeling and Motion Capture system. The rendering algorithm is illustrated in the following figure:

The results of applying our system to three motions are as follows.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof. <tk@cs.cmu.edu>

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Shape-From-Silhouette Across Time: Part II: Applications to Human Modeling and Markerless Motion Tracking
  K.M. Cheung, S. Baker, and T. Kanade
  International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 63, No. 3, August, 2005, pp. 225 - 245.
  Download: pdf [2755 KB] copyrighted

• Shape-From-Silhouette Across Time Part I: Theory and Algorithms
  K.M. Cheung, S. Baker, and T. Kanade
  International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 62, No. 3, May, 2005, pp. 221 - 247. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2047 KB] copyrighted

• Markerless Human Motion Transfer
  K.M. Cheung, S. Baker, J.K. Hodgins, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, September, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1216 KB] copyrighted

• Markerless Human Motion Transfer
  K.M. Cheung, S. Baker, J.K. Hodgins, and T. Kanade
  In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH 2004 Conference on Sketches & Applications, ACM Press, August, 2004.
  Download: pdf [423 KB] copyrighted

• Visual Hull Construction, Alignment and Refinement for Human Kinematic Modeling, Motion Tracking and Rendering
  K.M. Cheung
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [8142 KB] copyrighted