Motion editing often requires repetitive operations for modifying similar action units to give a similar effect
or impression. This paper proposes a system for efficiently and flexibly editing the sequence of iterative actions
by a few intuitive operations. Our system visualizes a motion sequence on a summary timeline with editable
pose-icons, and drag-and-drop operations on the timeline enable intuitive controls of temporal properties of the
motion such as timing, duration, and coordination. This graphical interface is also suited to transfer kinematical
and temporal features between two motions through simple interactions with a quick preview of the resulting
poses. Our method also integrates the concept of edit propagation by which the manual modification of one action
unit is automatically transferred to the other units that are robustly detected by similarity search technique. We
demonstrate the efficiency of our pose-timeline interface with a propagation mechanism for the timing adjustment
of mutual actions and for motion synchronization with a music sequence.
(C) ACM 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings – SCA 2009 : ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2009, pp.113-122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1599470.1599485