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...
Round-Robin scheduling is the most popular time triggered scheduling policy, and has been widely used in communication networks for the last decades. It is an efficient schedulin...
Razvan Racu, Li Li, Rafik Henia, Arne Hamann, Rolf...
Real-time media servers are becoming increasingly important as the Internet supports more and more multimedia applications. In order to meet these ever increasing demands, real-ti...
DEIRA is a virtual agent commenting on virtual horse races in real time. DEIRA analyses the state of the race, acts emotionally and comments about the situation in a believable an...
The CPU is one of the major power consumers in a portable computer, and considerable power can be saved by turning off the CPU when it is not doing useful work. In Apple's Ma...