Weproposeahumanavatarrepresentationschemebasedonintrinsiccoordinates,whichareinvarianttoisometryandinsensitivetohumanposechanges,andanefficientposetransferalgorithmthatcanutilizethisrepresentationtoreconstructahumanbodygeometryfollowingagivenpose.Suchaposetransferalgorithmcanbeusedtocontrolthemovementofanavatarmodelinvirtualrealityenvironmentsfollowingauser'smotioninrealtime.Ourproposedalgorithmconsistsofthreemainsteps.First,werecognizetheuser'sposeandselectatemplatemodelfromthedatabasewhohasasimilarpose;then,theintrinsicLaplacianoffsetsencodedinlocalcoordinatesareusedtoreconstructthehumanbodygeometryfollowingthetemplatepose;finally,themorphingbetweenthetwoposesisgeneratedusingalinearinterpolation.Weperformexperimentstoevaluatetheaccuracyandefficiencyofouralgorithm.Webelieveourproposedsystemisapromisinghumanmodelingtoolthatcanbeusedingeneralvirtualrealityapplications.
