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Pose-independent Simplification of Articulated Meshes

Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, April 2005

Christopher DeCoro, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
A full resolution model of a police officer is shown on the left, with its simplified counterpart on the right. Faces are randomly colored, in order to clearly show the triangulation. Note that the simplified model maintains high detail around joints, such as the elbows, while detail in the rest of the model is reduced.

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Abstract

Methods for triangle mesh decimation are common; however, most existing techniques operate only on static geometry. In this paper, we present a view- and pose-independent method for the automatic simplification of skeletally articulated meshes. Such meshes have associated kinematic skeletons that are used to control their deformation, with the position of each vertex influenced by a linear combination of bone transformations. Our method extends the commonly-used quadric error metric by incorporating knowledge of potential poses into a probability function. We minimize the average error of the deforming mesh over all possible configurations, weighted by the probability. This is possible by transforming the quadrics from each configuration into a common coordinate system. Our simplification algorithm runs as a preprocess, and the resulting meshes can be seamlessly integrated into existing systems. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach for generating highly-simplified models while preserving necessary detail in deforming regions near joints.
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Christopher DeCoro and Szymon Rusinkiewicz.
"Pose-independent Simplification of Articulated Meshes."
Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, April 2005.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{DeCoro:2005:PSO,
   author = "Christopher DeCoro and Szymon Rusinkiewicz",
   title = "Pose-independent Simplification of Articulated Meshes",
   booktitle = "Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics",
   year = "2005",
   month = apr
}