The human hand is a complex biological system able to perform numerous tasks with
impressive accuracy and dexterity. Gestures furthermore play an important role in our daily …

Optical marker-based motion capture is the dominant way for obtaining high-fidelity human
body animation for special effects, movies, and video games. However, motion capture has …

Detailed hand motions play an important role in face-to-face communication to emphasize
points, describe objects, clarify concepts, or replace words altogether. While shared virtual …

Designing virtual characters that are capable of conveying a sense of personality is
important for generating realistic experiences, and thus a key goal in computer animation …

Generating realistic animated virtual humans is a problem that has been extensively studied
with many applications in different types of virtual environments. However, the creation …

We use our hands every day: to grasp a cup of coffee, write text on a keyboard, or signal that
we are about to say something important. We use our hands to interact with our environment …

This paper presents a method to estimate and synthesize the motion of a character's fingers
in real-time during the performance capture process. For the motion estimation and …

The number of people with hand disabilities caused by stroke is increasing every year.
Develo** a low-cost and easy-to-use data glove to capture the human hand motion can …

Passive optical motion capture is one of the predominant technologies for capturing high
fidelity human motion, and is a workhorse in a large number of areas such as bio …

We present a method for automatically generating reduced marker layouts for marker-based
optical motion capture of human hand motions. Reducing the number of markers on the …