Animating pictures is an interesting and useful visual effect in entertainment industry. In this paper, we present a system that allow user to animate a character in pictures in 3D space by applying 3D motion data. We use a 3D character mesh with skeleton rigged as template model. The user need to cut out silhouette of the character in pictures, and assign correspondence points between 2D chara...

The effect of strain on the CeNi5 system has been investigated using density functional theory (DFT). The studies have shown that localised Ce 4f and Ni 3d states carry the magnetic moment of the material. The Ce 4f moment remains relatively unchanged during strain whereas the Ni 3d moment increases as the strain becomes increasingly tensile in both the basal and non-basal directions. A signifi...

Positioning service is one of Wireless Sensor Networks’ (WSNs) fundamental services. The accurate position of the sensor nodes plays a vital role in many applications of WSNs. In this paper, a 3D positioning algorithm is being proposed, using mobile anchor node to assist sensor nodes in order to estimate their positions in a 3D geospatial environment. However, mobile anchor node’s 3D path optim...

Our 3D world is not only perceived by our binocular vision but also pictorial cues of a single image can trig a 3D perception which have been understood for centuries and are used in our classical paintings. The modern 3D display technology achieves a 3D perception by fusion of several images captured from different point of views in an interlaced image and using optical means. Observing a pain...