Performance Capture for Virtual Heritage: Virtual re-enactment for the lost film <i>Pontianak</i>

Our project created an early 20 ^th century Malay-Singaporean Kampong village as a virtual environment. In this paper, we outline our approach of capturing performances to re-enact scenes for a virtual reality experience of the believed to be lost horror film Pontianak (1957).

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Benjamin Seide

Benjamin Slater

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Publication date: July 2021

Publication date (Print): July 2021

Pages: 69-72

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[0001]Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.11

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2021

Conference acronym: EVA 2021

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 5th July – 9th July 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] T. P. Barnard (2011) Films of change in early Singaporean film history, pp. 47–48. In Y. Michalik (ed.), Singapore independent film. Marburg [Germany]: Schüren.

[2] Raiz New Media. Website: http://www.raiznewmedia.com/najera.html (retrieved 10 March 2021).

[3] A. Bogdanovych, J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, S Simoff. and A. Cohen (2010). Authentic Interactive Reenactment of Cultural Heritage with 3D Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 24 (6), pp. 617-647.

[4] Epic Games Digital Humans project. Unreal Engine website: https://docs.unrealengine.com/enUS/Resources/Showcases/DigitalHumans/index.html (retrieved 17 January 2020).

[5] N. Magnenat-Thalmann, G. Papagiannakis (2005) Virtual Worlds and Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage Applications, pp. 2-9.

[6] A.R. Mustafar 50 TAHUN FILEM MALAYSIA & SINGAPURA (1930-1980), Pekan Ilmu Publications, Malaysia: 2019, p. 114

[7] Reallusion Face Mocap. Website: https://mocap.reallusion.com/iclone-motion-live-mocap/iphone-live-face.html (retrieved 17 January 2020)

[8] B. Seide, B. Slater (2020) “Virtual Cinematic Heritage for the Lost Singaporean Film Pontianak (1957)”. In M. Rauterberg (eds.) Culture and Computing. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12215. Springer, Cham, pp. 396–414.

[9] S. Skogstad & K. Nymoen & M. Høvin (2011) Comparing Inertial and Optical MoCap Technologies for Synthesis Control. Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference, SMC (2011).

[10] Unreal Engine (2018) News blog, April 2018. Website: https://www.unrealengine.com/enUS/events/siren-at-fmx-2018-crossing-the-uncanny-valley-in-real-time (retrieved 17 January 2020).

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Performance Capture for Virtual Heritage: Virtual re-enactment for the lost film Pontianak