Scrutinizing Natural Scenes: Controlling the Gaze of an Embodied Conversational Agent

We present here a system for controlling the eye gaze of a virtual embodied conversational agent able to perceive the physical environment in which it interacts. This system is inspired by known components of human visual attention system and reproduces its limitations in terms of visual acuity, sensitivity to movement, limitations of short-memory and object pursuit. The aim of this coupling between animation and visual scene analysis is to provide sense of presence and mutual attention to human interlocutors. After a brief

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IVA
• Authors: Antoine Picot, Gérard Bailly, Frédéric Elisei, Stephan Raidt
• Keywords: Embodied Conversational Agent, Human Visual Attention, IVA 2007, Visual Scene Analysis