Yao, Xinran;
Wang, Shuning;
Sun, Wenxin;
Wang, He;
Wang, Yangjun;
Jin, Xiaogang;
(2023)
Crowd Simulation with Detailed Body Motion
and Interaction.
In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N and Zhang, J and Kim, J and Papagiannakis, G and Sheng, B and Thalmann, D and Gavrilova, M, (eds.)
Advances in Computer Graphics.
(pp. pp. 227-238).
Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Crowd simulation methods generally focus on high fidelity 2D trajectories but ignore detailed 3D body animation which is normally added in a post-processing step. We argue that this is an intrinsic flaw as detailed body motions affect the 2D trajectories, especially when interactions are present between characters, and characters and the environment. In practice, this requires labor-intensive post-processing, fitting individual character animations onto simulated trajectories where anybody interactions need to be manually specified. In this paper, we propose a new framework to integrate the modeling of crowd motions with character motions, to enable their mutual influence, so that crowd simulation also incorporates agent-agent and agent-environment interactions. The whole framework is based on a three-level hierarchical control structure to effectively control the scene at different scales efficiently and consistently. To facilitate control, each character is modeled as an agent governed by four modules: visual system, blackboard system, decision system, and animation system. The animation system of the agent model consists of two modes: a traditional Finite State Machine (FSM) animation mode, and a motion matching mode. So an agent not only retains the flexibility of FSMs, but also has the advantage of motion matching which adapts detailed body movements for interactions with other agents and the environment. Our method is universal and applicable to most interaction scenarios in various environments in crowd animation, which cannot be achieved by prior work. We validate the fluency and realism of the proposed method by extensive experiments and user studies.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Crowd Simulation with Detailed Body Motion and Interaction |
| Event: | 39th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2022 |
| Location: | ELECTR NETWORK |
| Dates: | 12 Sep 2022 - 16 Sep 2022 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-031-23472-9 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-23473-6_18 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23473-6_18 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Crowd simulation; Agent-based; Terrain-adaptive |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215224 |
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