In pursuing the ultimate goal of enabling intelligent conversation with a virtual human, two key challenges are selecting nonverbal behaviors to implement and realizing those behav...
In this paper, we present our approach to modelling perceptive 3D virtual characters with emotion and personality. The characters are powered by a dialogue system that consists of...
Arjan Egges, Sumedha Kshirsagar, Xuan Zhang, Nadia...
The paper addresses the issue of making Virtual Humans unique and typical of some (social or ethnical) group, by endowing them with style. First a conceptual framework of defining ...
We introduce a framework for advanced behavioral animation in virtual humans, which addresses the challenging open problem of simulating social interactions between pedestrians in...
After a brief overview of the elements of modern grid computing, a number of common use-cases of natural language processing tasks running on the grid are presented, notably corpu...