Generating 3DCG Character Gaze Animation based on A Viewer's Preference

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26730143
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Kansei informatics
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: Mori Hiroshi 宇都宮大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (80538447)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: アニメーション / コンピュータグラフィックス / 対話型進化計算

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The CG character animation is required to appear as natural as human motion. Toward that goal, there is an approach where the expression appears as natural as the human expression by adding gaze behavior to the contextual situation, and the environment to the general behavior animation.
In this research, we propose a method for generating character gaze animation based on a viewer’s subjective evaluation using the Interactive Genetic Algorithm (IGA). We incorporate users watching a character animation into the optimization system. Then, the suitable parameters of the gaze controller are calculated from the viewer’s subjective evaluation.

Free Research Field

コンピュータグラフィックス、バーチャルリアリティ、感性情報学