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Feature matching and affine transformation for 2D cell animation

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This paper presents an application for feature matching and affine transformation in computer graphics. The study case considered is 2D cell animation, which is still a labor-intensive process in current cartoon film production. One key problem in automating 2D cell animation in inbetween frame generation. The objective of our work is to investigate how to automatically generate inbetweening from pairs of hand-drawn 2D key frames. Our technique first establishes the correspondence of feature points and then estimates the affine transformation between each pair of 2D key frames. The inbetween frames are then automatically generated by interpolation.

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  1. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, 2263

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Xie, M. Feature matching and affine transformation for 2D cell animation. The Visual Computer 11, 419–428 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464332

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