Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
We introduce gesture controllers, a method for animating the body language of avatars engaged in live spoken conversation. A gesture controller is an optimal-policy controller tha...
Sergey Levine, Philipp Krähenbühl, Sebastian Thr...
: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
Using a new hand tracking technology capable of tracking 3D hand postures in real-time, we developed a recognition system for continuous natural gestures. By natural gestures, we ...
This note describes how continuous sensing of gesture enabling expressive control of real-time audio/visual media is achieved using Berkeley motes. We have contributed a relativel...
Sha Xin Wei, Giovanni Iachello, Steven Dow, Yoichi...