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IJVR
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
The Virtual Human Platform: Simplifying the Use of Virtual Characters
In this paper, we will explain our approach to create and animate virtual characters for real-time rendering applications in an easy and intuitive way. Furthermore we show a way ho...
Christian Knöpfle, Yvonne Jung
IUI
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Simplified facial animation control utilizing novel input devices: a comparative study
Editing facial expressions of virtual characters is quite a complex task. The face is made up of many muscles, which are partly activated concurrently. Virtual faces with human exp...
Nikolaus Bee, Bernhard Falk, Elisabeth André
VRST
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
FreeWalk/Q: social interaction platform in virtual space
We have integrated technologies related to virtual social interaction, e.g. virtual environments, visual simulations, and lifelike characters. In our previous efforts to integrate...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toru Ishida
VW
1998
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Animated Impostors for Real-Time Display of Numerous Virtual Humans
Rendering and animating in real-time a multitude of articulated characters presents a real challenge and few hardware systems are up to the task. Up to now little research has bee...
Amaury Aubel, Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Interactive Demonstration of Pointing Gestures for Virtual Trainers
Abstract. While interactive virtual humans are becoming widely used in education, training and delivery of instructions, building the animations required for such interactive chara...
Yazhou Huang, Marcelo Kallmann