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HCI
2007
15 years 2 months ago
Social Puppets: Towards Modular Social Animation for Agents and Avatars
State-of-the-art computer graphics can give autonomous agents a compelling appearance as animated virtual characters. Typically the agents are directly responsible for controlling ...
Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Chirag Merc...
PG
2000
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Interactive Manipulation Planning for Animated Characters
We present a brief overview of an algorithm for interactively animating object grasping and manipulation tasks for human figures. The technique is designed to efficiently genera...
James J. Kuffner Jr., Jean-Claude Latombe
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
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15 years 5 months ago
Tracking of Multiple Faces for Human-Computer Interfaces and Virtual Environments
In this paper, we describe a real-time face-tracking algorithm. We start with single face tracking based on statistical color modeling and the deformable template. We then expand ...
Fu Jie Huang, Tsuhan Chen
ACMACE
2006
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...
ICCV
2007
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Exact Eye Contact with Virtual Humans
Abstract. This paper describes a simple yet effective method for achieving accurate, believable eye contact between humans and computer-generated characters, which to the author’...
Andrei State