Non-Photorealistic 3D Video-Avatar (Siggraph 2009)

Title: Non-Photorealistic 3D Video-Avatar

In SIGGRAPH '09: Posters

Abstract:
The digital games industry is always looking for innovation in user experience. A new trend in this field is the use of Augmented Reality (AR) techniques for intuitive, novel game interfaces. Among the several technologies related to AR, video avatars are one of the most attractive for games, because they allow the insertion of the game player's image in the game. Furthermore, the availability of commodity stereo cameras makes it feasible to employ 3D video avatars in consumer games. However, when a non-photorealistic rendering style is required for design reasons (often the case for games), the use of a conventional video avatar, even with 3D information, results in visual inconsistencies. This work presents a new approach to enable non-photorealistic rendering of a real-time 3D video avatar. The project builds upon a 3D video avatar system designed for teleconferencing over Internet 2 for educational purposes, extending it with this new rendering method.

Initial results lead us to believe that our approach helps to get a seamless integration between the avatar and the virtual environment and also helps to get a better fit of the avatar with the whole cartoon-like environment design, thus proving the main idea of the project.

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Tags:

• Non-photorealistic rendering
• video-avatar
• video-based rendering