Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

The Texas A&m University System

Huajun Liu

Inwoo Ha

Dokyoon Kim

Xiaolin Wei

Jinxiang Chai

Taehyun Rhee

A processing apparatus for creating an avatar is provided. The processing apparatus calculates skeleton sizes of joints of the avatar and local coordinates corresponding to sensors attached to a target user, by minimizing a sum of a difference function and a skeleton prior function, the difference function representing a difference between a forward kinematics function regarding the joints with respect to reference poses of the target user and positions of the sensors, and the skeleton prior function based on statistics of skeleton sizes with respect to reference poses of a plurality of users.

Processing apparatus and method for creating avatar

A data processing apparatus is used for motion synthesis. A preprocessing unit of the data processing apparatus calculates a mixture of factor analysis (MFA) parameter by applying an energy minimized optimization algorithm to motion capture data acquired in advance and stored in a motion database (DB). When a motion probability distribution model is generated as described above, a calculating unit of the data processing apparatus synthesizes a motion corresponding to input motion sensing data by applying the input motion sensing data to the motion probability distribution model.

Data processing apparatus and method for motion synthesis

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College Station, TX, United States of America

Huajun Liu