Modeling Repetitive Motions Using Structured Light

— Obtaining models of dynamic 3D objects is an important part of content generation for computer graphics. Numerous methods have been extended from static scenarios to model dynamic scenes. If the states or poses of the dynamic object repeat often during a sequence (but not necessarily periodically), we call such a repetitive motion. There are many objects, such as toys, machines, and humans, undergoing repetitive motions. Our key observation is that when a motion state repeats, we can sample the scene under the same motion state again but using a different set of parameters; thus providing more information of each motion state. This enables robustly acquiring dense 3D information difficult for objects with repetitive motions using only simple hardware. After the motion sequence, we group temporally disjoint observations of the same motion state together and produce a smooth space-time reconstruction of the scene. Effectively, the dynamic scene modeling problem is converted to a seri...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TVCG
• Authors: Yi Xu, Daniel G. Aliaga
• Keywords: Dynamic Scene, Motion State, Repetitive Motions, TVCG 2010