Thesis Details

Generating Animations with Neural Networks

Bachelor's Thesis Student: Dráber Filip Academic Year: 2020/2021 Supervisor: Hradiš Michal, Ing., Ph.D.
Czech title
Generování animací neuronovými sítěmi
Language
English
Abstract

While motion capture serves as a mean for animators to circumvent some of the most arduous aspects of creating realistic animation, there is still a lot of work hiding in annotating and structuring the data. I solve this problem by designing a neural network which can be trained on a motion capture data file to reproduce human locomotion visualized in an application which allows for the user to control the character's direction. I also subject various methods of training an autoregressive model to experiments and find which method trades training times for performance the best. Additionally, I remark how the addition of certain control features to frame-by-frame generations impacts the use of recurrent neural networks for this task.

Keywords

animation, motion capture, BVH, machine learning, neural networks, LSTM, discriminative models, autoregressive models

Department
Degree Programme
Information Technology
Files
Status
defended, grade C
Date
14 June 2021
Reviewer
Committee
Čadík Martin, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT), předseda
Bařina David, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT), člen
Burget Radek, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT), člen
Češka Milan, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT), člen
Jaroš Jiří, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY FIT BUT), člen
Citation
DRÁBER, Filip. Generating Animations with Neural Networks. Brno, 2021. Bachelor's Thesis. Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology. 2021-06-14. Supervised by Hradiš Michal. Available from: https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/20902/
BibTeX
@bachelorsthesis{FITBT20902,
    author = "Filip Dr\'{a}ber",
    type = "Bachelor's thesis",
    title = "Generating Animations with Neural Networks",
    school = "Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology",
    year = 2021,
    location = "Brno, CZ",
    language = "english",
    url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/20902/"
}
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