—When dealing with dynamic large-scale topologies such as those underlying peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed virtual environments (DVE), one inescapably reaches the point where eith...
Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Sch...
: If Topic Maps should be exchanged in distributed environments a common semantic problem occurs: Do two Topics refer to the same Subject? If they describe the same Subject the giv...
Abstract--In this paper, a procedure is described for the segmentation, content-based coding, and visualization of videoconference image sequences. First, image sequence analysis i...
Massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) are today the driving factor for the development of distributed interactive applications, and they are increasing in size and complexity. ...
In this paper, XfaceEd, our open source, platform independent tool for authoring 3D embodied conversational agents (ECAs) is presented. Following MPEG-4 Facial Animation (FA) stan...