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Constraint-Based Hand Animation

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Models and Techniques in Computer Animation

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Abstract

Simulation of hand motions is a complicated task since its articulation makes complex movements with at least 27 degrees of freedom involving various constraints. A new approach to hand modeling, reflecting constraints of human hands, is presented. The validity of the presented model is verified through experiments to automatically recognize complex hand motions based on the model.

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  1. Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113, Japan

    Jintae Lee & Tosiyasu L. Kunii

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  1. MIRALab, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, University of Geneva, 24 rue du Général-Dufour, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

    Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

  2. Computer Graphics Lab., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Daniel Thalmann

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Lee, J., Kunii, T.L. (1993). Constraint-Based Hand Animation. In: Thalmann, N.M., Thalmann, D. (eds) Models and Techniques in Computer Animation. Computer Animation Series. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66911-1_11

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