Real-time variable rigidity texture mapping

Koniaris, Charalampos; Mitchell, Kenny; Cosker, Darren

Abstract

Parameterisation of models is typically generated for a single pose, the rest pose. When a model deforms, its parameterisation characteristics change, leading to distortions in the appearance of texture-mapped mesostructure. Such distortions are undesirable when the represented surface detail is heterogeneous in terms of elasticity (e.g. texture with skin and bone) as the material looks "rubbery". In this paper we introduce a technique that preserves the appearance of heterogeneous elasticity textures mapped on deforming surfaces by calculating dense, content-aware parameterisation warps in real-time. We demonstrate the usefulness of our method in a variety of scenarios: from application to production-quality assets, to real-time modelling previews and digital acting.

Citation

Koniaris, C., Mitchell, K., & Cosker, D. (2015, November). Real-time variable rigidity texture mapping. Presented at Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Visual Media Production - CVMP '15

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Visual Media Production - CVMP '15
• Start Date: Nov 24, 2015
• End Date: Nov 26, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Nov 24, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Dec 12, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 16, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Book Title: CVMP '15 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Visual Media Production
• Chapter Number: n/a
• ISBN: 9781450335607
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2824840.2824850
• Keywords: Computing methodologies, computer graphics, animation, image manipulation,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/951565
• Contract Date: Dec 14, 2017