This paper gives a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synt...
This paper is concerned with synthetic agents interacting with virtual environments, called animated creatures. The animated creatures are articulated graphical gures that are eq...
Believable agents are defined to be interactive versions of quality characters in traditional artistic media like film. Such agents are useful in applications such as interactive ...
This paper presents a domain-independent architecture for facilitating visual problem solving between robots or softbots and humans. The architecture denes virtual and human agen...
The block processing inherent in the use of traditional vector quantization (VQ) schemes typically gives rise to perceptually distracting blocking artifacts. We demonstrate that s...
Henrique S. Malvar, Gary J. Sullivan, Gregory W. W...