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CGA
2002
14 years 9 months ago
Image/Based Crowd Rendering
Populated urban environments are very important in many applications such as urban planning and entertainment. However rendering in real time many people in a complex environment ...
Franco Tecchia, Céline Loscos, Yiorgos Chry...
CA
2002
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Conversational Virtual Character for the Web
Talking virtual characters are graphical simulations of real or imaginary persons capable of human-like behaviour, most importantly talking and gesturing. Coupled with artificial ...
Karlo Smid, Igor S. Pandzic

Publication
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14 years 10 months ago
GPU Rigid Skinning based on a Refined Skeletonization Method
In this paper, we present a skeletal rigid skinning approach. First, we describe a skeleton extraction technique that produces refined skeletons appropriate for animation from deco...
Andreas Vasilakis, Ioannis Fudos
CHI
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The virtual raft project: a mobile interface for interacting with communities of autonomous characters
This paper presents a novel and intuitive paradigm for interacting with autonomous animated characters. This paradigm utilizes a mobile device to allow people to transport charact...
Bill Tomlinson, Man Lok Yau, Jessica O'Connell, Ks...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
SmartBody: behavior realization for embodied conversational agents
Researchers demand much from their embodied conversational agents (ECAs), requiring them to be both life-like, as well as responsive to events in an interactive setting. We find t...
Marcus Thiébaux, Stacy Marsella, Andrew N. ...