Saliency Diagrams : a tool for analyzing animation through the relative importance of keyposes

Abstract

Keyframes are a core notion used by animators to understand and describe the motion. In this paper, we take inspiration from keyframe animation to compute a feature that we call the “Saliency diagram” of the animation. To create our saliency diagrams, we visualize how often each frame becomes a keyframe when using an existing selection technique. Animators can use the resulting Saliency diagram to analyze the motion.