DancingBox: A Lightweight MoCap System for Character Animation from Physical Proxies
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| author | Yuan, Haocheng Bousseau, Adrien Pan, Hao Zhong, Lei Li, Changjian |
| author_facet | Yuan, Haocheng Bousseau, Adrien Pan, Hao Zhong, Lei Li, Changjian |
| contents | Creating compelling 3D character animations typically requires either expert use of professional software or expensive motion capture systems operated by skilled actors. We present DancingBox, a lightweight, vision-based system that makes motion capture accessible to novices by reimagining the process as digital puppetry. Instead of tracking precise human motions, DancingBox captures the approximate movements of everyday objects manipulated by users with a single webcam. These coarse proxy motions are then refined into realistic character animations by conditioning a generative motion model on bounding-box representations, enriched with human motion priors learned from large-scale datasets. To overcome the lack of paired proxy-animation data, we synthesize training pairs by converting existing motion capture sequences into proxy representations. A user study demonstrates that DancingBox enables intuitive and creative character animation using diverse proxies, from plush toys to bananas, lowering the barrier to entry for novice animators. |
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| spellingShingle | DancingBox: A Lightweight MoCap System for Character Animation from Physical Proxies Yuan, Haocheng Bousseau, Adrien Pan, Hao Zhong, Lei Li, Changjian Graphics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Human-Computer Interaction 68U05 Creating compelling 3D character animations typically requires either expert use of professional software or expensive motion capture systems operated by skilled actors. We present DancingBox, a lightweight, vision-based system that makes motion capture accessible to novices by reimagining the process as digital puppetry. Instead of tracking precise human motions, DancingBox captures the approximate movements of everyday objects manipulated by users with a single webcam. These coarse proxy motions are then refined into realistic character animations by conditioning a generative motion model on bounding-box representations, enriched with human motion priors learned from large-scale datasets. To overcome the lack of paired proxy-animation data, we synthesize training pairs by converting existing motion capture sequences into proxy representations. A user study demonstrates that DancingBox enables intuitive and creative character animation using diverse proxies, from plush toys to bananas, lowering the barrier to entry for novice animators. |
| title | DancingBox: A Lightweight MoCap System for Character Animation from Physical Proxies |
| topic | Graphics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Human-Computer Interaction 68U05 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17704 |