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Abstract

We present a simple and ef cient approach to turn laser-scanned human geometry
into a realistically moving virtual avatar. Instead of relying on the classical
skeleton-based animation pipeline, our method uses a mesh-based Laplacian
editing scheme to drive the motion of the scanned model. Our framework
elegantly solves the motion retargeting problem and produces realistic
non-rigid surface deformation with minimal user interaction. Realistic
animations can easily be generated from a variety of input motion descriptions,
which we exemplify by applying our method to both marker-free and marker-based
motion capture data.