Virtual Moon Experiences with Video-based Crowd Animation

This paper proposes a crowd animation system that can provide virtual experiences on the moon. Our system takes the moon landing videos, which were captured during the Apollo mission in late 60s, as an input, and reconstructs various motion clips including walking, running, skipping and jumping using the KLT algorithm and refines the motions in a physically-consistent manner. Using Kinect sensor, the system also control the virtual astronaut model's movement by tracking the user's body movement. In order to make smooth crowd animation without creating collisions among virtual astronaut models, we apply the RVO algorithm to the astronaut models. Thus, our system produces realistic and interactive crowd animation for virtual moon experiences populated with interesting motion sequences.