Robust Skin Weights Transfer via Weight Inpainting

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Category

Method: an automatic skin-weight transfer algorithm

Contributions

• A fully automatic two-stage skin weight transfer from a source mesh to a geometrically dissimilar target
• Stage one copies weights only for high-confidence target vertices, stage two interpolates weights for the rest (weight inpainting)
• Robustness on non-skin-tight garments, reported to outperform existing commercial software and prior research

Context

Addresses production garment rigging in the lineage of weight-transfer and binding methods such as Geodesic Voxel Binding (Dionne et al.).Builds on: Geodesic Voxel Binding for Production Character Meshes

Correctness

The key assumption is that a confident subset of correspondences gives reliable ground-truth weights from which the remainder can be interpolated; demonstrated mainly on garments over body meshes, so very loose or topologically very different targets are worth checking.

Clarity

Accessible and described as easy to implement; a first pass conveys the two-stage idea, a second pass clarifies the confidence criterion and inpainting.

How to read it

Focus on how high-confidence vertices are selected and how interpolation fills the rest; one careful pass is usually enough to apply it, a second pass for exact implementation details.