Narrative, and in particular storytelling, is an important part of the human experience. Consequently, computational systems that can reason about narrative can be more effective...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is a next-generation Internet application of increasing interest allowing users to start watching a movie almost instantaneously by downloading the video on-...
—Data loss in wireless communications greatly affects the reconstruction quality of a signal. In the case of images, data loss results in a reduction in quality of the received i...
Today’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight, are designed around the client-server paradigm and cannot easily take advantage of repli...
In this paper, we introduce a system that synthesizes the emotional audio-visual speech for a 3-D talking agent by adopting the PAD (Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance) emotional model. A ...