Topic(s): Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags: puppet animation computer+vision cutout
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Video Puppetry is a new method for creating computer animations using simple craft supplies, a web cam, and a computer. It takes just a few minutes to go from story concept to a final rendered animation, and requires no skill or experience beyond that of children's playtime puppetry. Character motions are extracted from a video stream using real-time computer vision techniques.
Web site: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~djacobs/puppet/puppet.html
David Jacobs
I am an undergraduate computer science student at UC Berkeley. The puppet project is the result of a collaboration between UC Berkeley, Adobe Systems, and Princeton University.