A Real-Time Pedestrian Animation System

Abstract

The presented system clarifies possible connections between existing pedestrian simulations and human character animation. Crowd behavior control is separated from the local realization of the animation. A data-driven skeletal ani- mation is indirectly controlled by a high level animation description. A mechanism is specified to transform behavior assignments into a continuous skeletal anima- tion, which is used for an asynchronous visualization of virtual humans. A graphics hardware accelerated implementation shows the efficiency of the selected approach.