Several stochastic models provide an effective framework to identify the temporal structure of audiovisual data. Most of them need as input a first video structure, i.e. connecti...
In this paper we describe an experiment designed to investigate the importance of eye gaze in humanoid avatars representing people engaged in conversation. We compare responses to...
Maia Garau, Mel Slater, Simon Bee, Martina Angela ...
Virtual avatars in many applications are constructed manually or by a single speech-driven model which needs a lot of training data and long training time. It’s an essential pro...
The new MPEG-4 standard, scheduled to become an International Standard in February 1999, will include support not only for natural video and audio, but also for synthetic graphics...
Marc Escher, Igor S. Pandzic, Nadia Magnenat-Thalm...
Analysis of video data usually requires training classifiers in high dimensional feature spaces. This paper proposes a layered Gaussian mixture model (LGMM) to exploit high dimens...