Bilkent University
Department of Computer Engineering
CS 590/690 SEMINAR
Personality Transfer in Human Animation
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Ph.D. Student
(Supervisor:Prof. Dr. Uğur Güdükbay)
Computer Engineering Department
Bilkent University
Abstract: Personality is the individual's interrelated behavioral and emotional patterns that form the unique self. Personality-enriched animations benefit digital characters, thereby improving realism and communication. Body movements, among other modalities, can include strong cues for personality expression. We focus on altering the body movements of human animation to express the desired personality traits following two approaches: (i) a traditional approach that utilizes handcrafted motion adjustments following heuristic rules, and (ii) a data-driven approach that separates content and personality into different latent spaces to reconstruct the same motion with altered personality. While the sample size does not affect the traditional approach, the scarcity of personality-labeled animation datasets prevents the use of sophisticated data-driven models; to this end, we employ Neural Motion Fields (NeMF) in our data-driven personality transfer architecture. We evaluate the performance of the two approaches through a three-part user study; different models stand out for altering specific personality factors.
DATE: April 20, Monday @ 15:30 Place: EA 502