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CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Understanding Referring Expressions Involving Perceptual Grouping
This paper deals with understanding referring expressions involving perceptual grouping. The ability to use referring expressions is important for conversational agents aimed at r...
Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Takenobu Tokuna...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Supporting Presentation Techniques based on Virtual Humans in Educational Virtual Worlds
Educational Virtual Worlds (EVWs) allow one to circumvent physical, safety, and cost constraints that often affect real-world training and learning scenarios. Virtual humans can i...
Luca Chittaro, Lucio Ieronutti, Sara Rigutti
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Interactive 3D BreakAway Map: A navigation and examination aid for multi-floor 3D worlds
In this paper, we propose the Interactive 3D BreakAway Map (I3BAM), an extension of the wellknown Worlds In Miniature [6]. The I3BAM supports user navigation in virtual buildings ...
Luca Chittaro, Vijay Kumar Gatla, Subramanian Venk...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On a Serverless Networked Virtual Ball Game for Multi-Player
This paper studies the way to improve consistency of states in a ball-game typed Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) with lag, in peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture. That is, we ar...
Yoshihiro Kawano, Tatsuhiro Yonekura
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Web-Based Configure-to-Order Platform for Collaborative Development of Customized Products
To support the collaborative development of custom products in current distributed manufacturing, this paper develops a Web-based configure-to-order platform. The proposed platfor...
Roger Jianxin Jiao, Martin G. Helander, Lianfeng Z...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Augmenting Existing Virtual Environments with Plausible Naturalistic Clutter
We present an approach for enriching a Virtual Environment by augmenting it with the kind of naturalistic clutter often found in real-world scenes. Rather than manually specifying...
R. A. Broughton, T. L. J. Howard
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Data Integration for Virtual Enterprise in Cyberworlds
Virtual Enterprise enables companies to collaborate through sharing of resources, and therefore allows them to enjoy the benefits of virtual integration. The essence of Virtual En...
Cheng Leong Ang, Robert Kheng Leng Gay, Olga Souri...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Function-based Time-dependent Shape Modeling on the Web
In this paper we propose FVRML—a function-based extension of Virtual Reality Modeling Language which allows for time-dependent shape modeling on the web. Shape’s geometry, 3D ...
Qi Liu, Alexei Sourin