The Internet pervades many aspects of our lives and is becoming indispensable to critical functions in areas such as commerce, government, production and general information disse...
New acquisition and modeling tools make it easier to create 3D models, and affordable and powerful graphics hardware makes it easier to use them. As a result, the number of 3D mo...
Patrick Min, John A. Halderman, Michael M. Kazhdan...
Researchers have had great success using motion capture tools for controlling avatars in virtual worlds. Another current of virtual reality research has focused on building collab...
Benjamin Schaeffer, Mark Flider, Hank Kaczmarski, ...
We describe how to create with machine learning techniques a generative, videorealistic, speech animation module. A human subject is first recorded using a videocamera as he/she u...
Currently, state of the art virtual agents lack the ability to display emotion as seen in actual humans, or even in hand-animated characters. One reason for the emotional inexpres...