UMV

Title

You Music Video (uMV)

Description

• Motivation

I've had interest in rotoscoping and animation in videos and dance for a while - and I'm interesting in mixing them, live.

• Interactive paradigm

As the person dances/moves, animation or other features will react to their movement, enhancing it on video, and basically creating a music video on the spot.

• Technical Description

The person would be caught and tracked on camera, and we could use frame differencing to track the magnitude of his or her movements and the pre-coded/drawn animations would react accordingly. Background images can be added and changed over time to improve the effect.

Visual Concept

• Reference:

http://www.motiontheory.com/work/nike_presto-04

View video 'Urban Canvas'.

http://www.motiontheory.com/work/nike_flow

View video 'Flow'.

Documentation

• Source Code:

-coding consists of initialization of camera, bitmap manipulating to create motion-detecting/color/background editing effects, and some animating code. -camera code and motion detecting code is adapted from [[1]], with some changes for color and background editing effects.

CAMERA: -sets up webcam and shows security panel

BITMAP: