Automating gait generation

Harold C. Sun; Dimitris N. Metaxas

doi:10.1145/383259.383288

Automating gait generation

Harold C. Sun, Dimitris N. Metaxas

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Abstract

One of the most routine actions humans perform is walking. To date, however, an automated tool for generating human gait is not available. This paper addresses the gait generation problem through three modular components. We present ElevWalker, a new low-level gait generator based on sagittal elevation angles, which allows curved locomotion - walking along a curved path - to be created easily; ElevInterp, which uses a new inverse motion interpolation algorithm to handle uneven terrain locomotion; and MetaGait, a high-level control module which allows an animator to control a figure's walking simply by specifying a path. The synthesis of these components is an easy-to-use, real-time, fully automated animation tool suitable for off-line animation, virtual environments and simulation.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	261-269
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	158113374X, 9781581133745
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/383259.383288
State	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes
Event	28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001 - Los Angeles, CA, United States Duration: Aug 12 2001 → Aug 17 2001

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Name	Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001

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Other	28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001
Country	United States
City	Los Angeles, CA
Period	8/12/01 → 8/17/01

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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

Keywords

animation
animation systems
animation with constraints
human body simulation

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Sun, H. C., & Metaxas, D. N. (2001). Automating gait generation. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001 (pp. 261-269). (Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/383259.383288

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Sun, HC & Metaxas, DN 2001, Automating gait generation. in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 261-269, 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 8/12/01. https://doi.org/10.1145/383259.383288

Automating gait generation. / Sun, Harold C.; Metaxas, Dimitris N.

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001. Association for Computing Machinery, 2001. p. 261-269 (Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001).

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