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Held, Robert, Gupta, Ankit, Curless, Brian and Agrawala, Maneesh (2012): 3D puppetry: a Kinect-based interface for 3D animation. In: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2012. pp. 423-434.

“We present a system for producing 3D animations using physical objects (i.e., puppets) as input. Puppeteers can load 3D models of familiar rigid objects, including toys, into our system and use them as puppets for an animation. During a performance, the puppeteer physically manipulates these puppets in front of a Kinect depth sensor. Our system uses a combination of image-feature matching and 3D shape matching to identify and track the physical puppets. It then renders the corresponding 3D models into a virtual set. Our system operates in real time so that the puppeteer can immediately see the resulting animation and make adjustments on the fly. It also provides 6D virtual camera \rev{and lighting} controls, which the puppeteer can adjust before, during, or after a performance. Finally our system supports layered animations to help puppeteers produce animations in which several characters move at the same time. We demonstrate the accessibility of our system with a variety of animations created by puppeteers with no prior animation experience.”

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