Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Byoung Tae Choi

Il Kwon Jeong

Jong Sung Kim

Sang Hyun Joo

Seong Min Baek

Jin Ho Kim

Jae Hean Kim

Myung Gyu Kim

Kwang Ho Yang

Sung June Chang

Kwang-Hyun Shim

Man Kyu Sung

Kyung Jun Song

Kwang-Man Oh

Byung Eui Min

Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for creating an avatar. The method for creating an avatar according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes receiving information on an appearance of an object to be created into an avatar; generating avatar appearance type metadata using the information on the appearance; creating the avatar using the avatar appearance type metadata, wherein the avatar appearance type metadata include at least one of skin information, hair information, nails information, and teeth information. The exemplary embodiments of the present invention can create the avatar capable of facilitating the differentiation with another avatar while more approximating the reality, by adding more detailed data in addition to the data for the existing appearance so as to generate the avatar.

Method and apparatus for generating an avatar

Disclosed is a method for automatically extracting centroids and features of a spherical object required to measure a flight speed, a flight direction, a rotation speed, and a rotation axis of the spherical object in a system for measuring flight information of the spherical object with a high-speed stereo camera. In order to automatically extract the centroids and the features of the spherical object, the present invention may automatically extract the centroid and the feature by detecting only the pixel of the foreground image including the spherical object generated by excluding the motionless background image from each camera image, sorting the interconnected pixels among the pixels of the detected foreground image into the independent pixel cluster, and then, using, in the extraction of the centroid and the feature, only one pixel cluster having a size similar to the actual spherical object.

System and method for measuring flight information of a spherical object with high-speed stereo camera

A method for calibrating a camera including (a) obtaining a two-dimensional (2D) homography that maps each of parallelograms projected onto two images taken by the camera into a rectangle, wherein the 2D homography is defined as a rectification homography and wherein new cameras that have virtual images are defined as rectified cameras and a new infinite homography is generated between the two rectified cameras, the virtual images being transformed from original images by the rectification homography; (b) obtaining an original infinite homography by using the correlations among the new infinite homography, the rectification homography and the original infinite homography; and (c) obtaining intrinsic camera parameters based on the correlation between the original infinite homography and the intrinsic camera parameters, thereby calibrating the camera.

Method and system for calibrating camera with rectification homography of imaged parallelogram

A method of producing a locomotion animation includes calculating movement information of the objects on the basis of surrounding information of the objects and motion capture data for the subjects, and measuring a collision between the objects or between an object and an obstacle on the basis of the movement information to calculate riding motion information for the subjects. The movement information and the riding motion information are then synthesized to determine movement motion and riding animations of the objects. Therefore, the motions of locomotion can be naturally connected with each other.

System and method of producing locomotion animation by using riding motion

A method for converting OFF (object file format) from three-dimensional polygon data into a quad edge data structure which includes a step to determine if an input triangle of object file format is a whole new triangle, a step to find two edges and perform splice operation if the input triangle is a whole new triangle in the determination step, a step to find a quad edge from vertex link of quad edge data structure if the input triangle is not a whole new triangle in the determination step, and a step to find a candidate edge for a splice operation by comparing the link generated in the preprocessing stage and the vertex link of quad edge data structure and performing the splice operation on the candidate edge and the new quad edge.

Method for converting three-dimensional polygon data into quad edge data structure

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Byoung Tae Choi