A large family of shape comparison methods is based on a medial axis transform combined with an encoding of the skeleton by a graph. Despite many qualities this encoding of shapes ...
This paper presents an argumentation-based approach to deliberation, the process by which two or more agents reach a consensus on a course of action. The kind of deliberation we a...
In this paper, a novel two-tier Bayesian based method is proposed for hair segmentation. In the first tier, we construct a Bayesian model by integrating hair occurrence prior prob...
Dan Wang, Shiguang Shan, Wei Zeng, Hongming Zhang,...
In this paper we describe how to generate affective dialogs for multiple virtual characters based on a combination of both automatically generated and pre-scripted scenes. This is ...
We propose a new approach for combining acoustic and visual measurements to aid in recognizing lip shapes of a person speaking. Our method relies on computing the maximum likeliho...