: Research has found that animated characters are capable of capturing users’ attention, engaging them in active tasks, and entertaining them. Such capabilities are pedagogical t...
The MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation (FBA) specifications aims at standardizing an interchange format for specifying virtual face and body modeling and related animation parameters....
Abstract. How to create effective body animations for virtual agents with emotions remains the state of the art for human animators and a great challenge for computer scientists. I...
The ability to learn is a potentially compelling and important quality for interactive synthetic characters. To that end, we describe a practical approach to real-time learning fo...
Bruce Blumberg, Marc Downie, Yuri A. Ivanov, Matt ...
Many training, education, and visualization environments would benefit from realistic animated characters. Unfortunately, interfaces for character motion specification are often c...
Ronald A. Metoyer, Lanyue Xu, Madhusudhanan Sriniv...