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Meetings

Working Group: Wednesday, 5pm, PDT or PST for 1 hour
Next: April 23rd (Wednesday) at 5:00pm PDT
Agenda and Minutes
International Standards Organization (ISO)

Work

Governance

Chairpersons: Myeong Won Lee, William O. Glascoe III
Members: Joe Williams (Subject Matter Expert), Don Brutzman, Richard Puk, Sandy Ressler, Keith Victor, David Bruner, Anita Havele, Jung-Ju Choi, Kwan-Hee Yoo
Charter
Strategic Plan
Marketing Plan
Strategic Report

Specifications

Users

Partners

Usage

Technologies

Sciences

Resources

Open Virtual Reality Testbed [1] for Open Virtual Reality Testbed page on human joint types and counts
H-Anim Executive Summary for more Working Group information
H-Anim working group
Humanoid Animation V1.0 Specification (.zip)
H-Anim Examples in the X3D Basic Examples Archive

Procedure for H-Anim character design

Procedure for designing an H-Anim character with a general design tool

H-Anim wrl to x3d converter

Converter from H-Anim WRL to H-Anim X3D
test version

H-Anim LOA Figures

LOA1 example figures: Media:BonesAllSkeletonFrontView LOA1.png and Media:JointNamesLOA1.png

Media:BonesAllSkeletonFrontView LOA1n.png

LOA2 example figure: Media:BonesAllSkeletonFrontView LOA2.png

Media:BonesAllSkeletonFrontView LOA2n.png

LOA3 example figure: Media:BonesAllSkeletonFrontView LOA3.png

Media:BonesAllSkeletonFrontView LOA3n.png

The background skeleton and images for the human skeleton can be found in the Basic Medical examples archive:

SkeletonCompleteNormals.x3d

H-Anim examples archive:

H-Anim Behavior Prototypes

Prototypes for HAnimBehavior node, which collects OrientationInterpolators for aggregate animation of an H-Anim humanoid model, and HAnimBodyBehaviorChooser, which selects one body and enables/disables multiple aggregate behaviors.

H-Anim examples designed with a general tool (10 H-Anim characters)

Current Work

Working group chairs keep the following pages up to date:

Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) overview on web3d.org site
This wiki page

Joe and Don are working each Monday night [1700-1900 pacific, Web3D teleconference line) on

Confirming first the status of all current work relative to the approved H-Anim Specification
- X3D Basic Examples for H-Anim
- X3D tooltips, X3D DOCTYPE Documentation and X3D Schema Documentation for the H-Anim nodes
- X3D Player Support for H-Anim
- X3D Authoring Tool Support for H-Anim including X3D-Edit
- X3D Quality Assurance (QA) and X3D Validator

As those issues get sorted out, we are re-visiting all the important details regarding H-Anim skinning
- Definitions, example test scenes, tool support
- Proposing an improved H-Anim component for X3D v3.4
- Editing a corresponding update to H-Anim ISO 19774 Specification

The larger group is also working on

interoperable, swappable behaviors
motion capture
facial animation

Anthropometry

Published References for review and citation

Ergonomic Models of Anthropometry, Human Biomechanics and Operator-Equipment Interfaces: Proceedings of a Workshop ( 1988 )

Professional Societies: Professional Certifications, Licenses in Anthropometry International Standards: ISO - Basic human body measurements for technological design -- Part 1: Body measurement definitions and landmarks IEEE -

North American Standards:

ANSI

South, Central, Latin American Standards:

European, Middle Eastern and African Standards:

Asian Standards:

Before

This wiki page is the site for the recently renewed Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) Working Group.

Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) WG Meeting

H-Anim WG Meeting at Web3D Conference & SIGGRAPH 2012, Los Angeles, USA, August 3, 2012
Teleconferences: 1st Wednesday at 9:00am PDT every month
Our August 2012 meeting will be replaced by the face-to-face H-Anim WG meeting (Hilton Checkers Hotel, 03 August at 16:00).

March 2012: H-Anim Working Group Draft Charter materials by Web3D Korean Chapter

Links of interest:

H-Anim Executive Summary for more Working Group information
H-Anim working group
Humanoid Animation V1.0 Specification (.zip)
H-Anim Examples in the X3D Basic Examples Archive

There has been previous work by the H-Anim working group during 2008-2009 that was not completed. Here are some additional links on the members-only wiki:

Web3D members-only H-Anim wiki
Accommodating Diverse Models (also linked there for members: Proposed amendment to H-Anim Specification)
Proposed amendment to H-Anim Specification
TODO list progress and problems
TODO determine visibility permissions for items on the members-only sites (this is a decision by the working group, assuming that no proprietary information is included)
TODO find prior working group charter

Much additional work has been proposed by the Korea Chapter.

Definition of a humanoid character model capable of generating motion from captured motion data
Definition of a humanoid character model capable of generating motion using a general motion definition such as keyframe, interpolation, kinematics and dynamics for human figures.
Definition of motion parameters for transferring or exchanging motion between different human character models
Definition of motion data interface for including motion data
Definition of behavior modeling data
Definition of motion viewer’s functionality
Video human functionality and gestures will be considered in AR/MR working group efforts

We agreed on the 1 Feb 2012 teleconference that it is a good idea to document work on these many good ideas using this H-Anim public wiki. Further comment is welcome about this.

The main thing that is needed next is to get the H-Anim Working Group restarted and rejuvenated.

H-Anim WG Charter
TODO: we need 1-2 members who are willing to volunteer to serve as working group co-chairs.
Working Draft for the H-Anim motion definition (in preparation) H-Anim Motion Definition

William's Section!

Human joint articulation of any type (there are six: ball & socket, elbow, gliding, hinge, hip, and saddle joints) can be expressed using Euler angles or quaternions. The word quaternion is modified based on how it is used--rotation, orientation or attitude modifiers are germane but there are others for different use cases. There are multiple approaches to convert Euler angles into quaternions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_product#Hamilton_product, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotation).

BVH mocap conversion to X3D interpolators

Myeong Won Lee example: http://web3d.org/wiki/images/4/4b/197_a.bvh.txt

Proposed investigation procedure: divide and conquer! Let's take each skeleton apart and put them back together again.

1. Is there an X3D H-Anim skeleton that corresponds to the BVH ROOT/JOINT HIERARCHY?

The structures used by BVH and H-Anim are different. There is not a direct correspondence between them. Differences include:

The hierarchical nesting of parent-child relationships is different
Values are therefore in different coordinate frames (one might be relative to parent joint, the other absolute coordinates for the human)
Formats are quite different
(others will be listed here)

2. However many similarities also exist. Maybe they can be exploited?

Perhaps we can build a mapping between the two. If we perform rotation transformations, a conversion algorithm can be computed for each hierarchy and corresponding units.

Here is a possible set of correspondences between a BVH model and an X3D H-Anim LOA-1 model.

BVH :: X3D H-Anim
- ROOT :: HAnimHumanoid
- JOINT :: HAnimJoint
  - JOINT name:: HAnimJoint name
  - OFFSET :: HAnimJoint center
- CHANNEL definitions :: HAnimJoint rotation, translation
  - MOTION array of Euler-degree rotations :: OrientationInterpolator MFRotation array with ROUTE connections
  - CHANNEL array of position translations :: PositionInterpolator MFVec3f array with ROUTE connections
- End Site :: HAnimSite
- Anything else?

TODO

map the BVH names to the approved H-Anim X3D names.

3. Once we have the skeleton mapping, we can work on the animation values.

Let's look at the BVH file next. Hypothesis:

BVH MOTION arrays providing Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation values

to

corresponding MFRotation arrays with 4-tuple SFRotation values

Example reconstruction follows. First is an extract from the BVH file, then a counting exercise of how many floats appear.

 * ROOT Hips
   CHANNELS 6 Xposition Yposition Zposition Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
   * JOINT Chest
     CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
     * JOINT LeftCollar
       CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
       * JOINT LeftShoulder
         CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
         * JOINT LeftElbow
           CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
           * JOINT LeftWrist
             CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
     * JOINT RightCollar
       CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
       * JOINT RightShoulder
         CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
         * JOINT RightElbow
           CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
         * JOINT RightWrist
           CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation
     * JOINT Neck
       CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
       * JOINT Head
         CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
   * JOINT LeftHip
     CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
     * JOINT LeftKnee
      CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
      * JOINT LeftAnkle
        CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
   * JOINT RightHip
     CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
     * JOINT RightKnee
       CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation
       * JOINT RightAnkle
       * CHANNELS 3 Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation

Defines a MOTION array consisting of numeric values:

 3 floats [Hip location]
 3 floats [Hip rotation]
 3 floats [Chest rotation]
 3 floats [LeftCollar rotation]
 3 floats [LeftShoulder rotation]
 3 floats [LeftElbow rotation]
 3 floats [LeftWrist rotation]
 3 floats [RightCollar rotation]
 3 floats [RightShoulder rotation]
 3 floats [RightElbow rotation]
 3 floats [RightWrist rotation]
 3 floats [Neck rotation]
 3 floats [Head rotation]
 3 floats [LeftHip rotation]
 3 floats [LeftKnee rotation]
 3 floats [LeftAnkle rotation]
 3 floats [RightHip rotation]
 3 floats [RightKnee rotation]
 3 floats [RightAnkle rotation]
 = 19*3 = 54 floats

Each line of the MOTION data has 19 triples. Therefore we do have a good match.

4. Units

Length

BVH position units: author-defined, arbitrary - no fixed units, apparently (TODO confirm)
X3D position units: 3-tuple x-y-z meters relative to point between feet on floor

Some scaling may be needed to get from BVH to X3D, either by a Transform scale or by a UNIT statement.

Angle

BVH orientation units: (Zrotation Xrotation Yrotation) Euler angles in degrees. Note that order may vary. (TODO confirm)
X3D rotation units: SFRotation 4-tuple (normalized x-y-z axis vector, angle in radians)

Given these definitions, we will need to convert the BVH orientation to X3D rotation. Ordinarily in 3D graphics this is performed using a 3x3 or 4x4 transformation matrix.