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ROBOCUP
2007
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
A Scalable Hybrid Multi-robot SLAM Method for Highly Detailed Maps
Abstract. Recent successful SLAM methods employ hybrid map representations combining the strengths of topological maps and occupancy grids. Such representations often facilitate mu...
Max Pfingsthorn, Bayu Slamet, Arnoud Visser
MM
2003
ACM
167views Multimedia» more  MM 2003»
15 years 9 months ago
Avatar motion control by user body postures
This paper describes a virtual reality system that realizes both an avatar motion control and a virtual object manipulation without avatar representation. Our goal is to do seamle...
Satoshi Yonemoto, Hiroshi Nakano, Rin-ichiro Tanig...
BCSHCI
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Docile avatars: aesthetics, experience, and sexual interaction in Second Life
Second Life, a participant-created multi-user virtual environment (MUVE), gained sudden media acclaim in 2006. Prior to that, the world was developing many of the characteristics ...
Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell
NIPS
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Fast and Scalable Training of Semi-Supervised CRFs with Application to Activity Recognition
We present a new and efficient semi-supervised training method for parameter estimation and feature selection in conditional random fields (CRFs). In real-world applications suc...
Maryam Mahdaviani, Tanzeem Choudhury
VRCAI
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Towards Virtual Reality games
Game engines of cinematic quality, broadband networking and advances in Virtual Reality (VR) technologies are setting the stage to allow players to have shared, “better-than-lif...
Andrei Sherstyuk, Dale Vincent, Anton Treskunov