Instant movie casting with personality: Dive into the movie system

Abstract

"Dive into the Movie (DIM)" is a name of project to aim to realize a world innovative entertainment system which can provide an immersion experience into the story by giving a chance to audience to share an impression with his family or friends by watching a movie in which all audience can participate in the story as movie casts. To realize this system, we are trying to model and capture the personal characteristics instantly and precisely in face, body, gait, hair and voice. All of the modeling, character synthesis, rendering and compositing processes have to be performed on real-time without any manual operation. In this paper, a novel entertainment system, Future Cast System (FCS), is introduced as a prototype of DIM. The first experimental trial demonstration of FCS was performed at the World Exposition 2005 in which 1,630,000 people have experienced this event during 6 months. And finally up-to-date DIM system to realize more realistic sensation is introduced. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.