Through-the-eyes control of a virtual humanoid

We present an animation technique to control a humanoid in a virtual environment. The automatic generation of humanoid motion is difficult and needs to be simplified. The solution proposed in this paper consists of controlling humanoid motion through the image it "perceives": through-the-eyes control. The considered approach is based on the visual servoing concept. It allows the automatic generation of (virtual) camera motion by simply specifying the task in the image space. This approach is suited to highly reactive contexts (video games, virtual reality). We also discuss the integration of such techniques in a more complex behavioral system.