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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Body and mind: a study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds
An increasingly large number of users connect to virtual worlds on a regular basis to conduct activities ranging from gaming to business meetings. In all these worlds, users proje...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ming-Hui Wen, Nicholas Yee, Gr...
VRML
1999
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
An Open Virtual Environment for Autonomous Agents Using VRML and Java
We describe a VRML/Java-based virtual environment that is populated with heterogeneous articulated agents. In this simulated environment, agents compete for collecting certain obj...
Bernhard Jung, Jan-Torsten Milde
IJCAI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Policies for Embodied Virtual Agents through Demonstration
Although many powerful AI and machine learning techniques exist, it remains difficult to quickly create AI for embodied virtual agents that produces visually lifelike behavior. T...
Jonathan Dinerstein, Parris K. Egbert, Dan Ventura
CGI
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Virtualizing Real-World Objects
High quality, virtual 3D models are quickly emerging as a new multimedia data type with applications in such diverse areas as e-commerce, online encyclopaedias, or virtual museums...
Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Jan Kautz, Michael Goesele, ...
VAST
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A case study of a virtual audience in a reconstruction of an ancient Roman odeon in Aphrodisias
The benefits of including virtual humans into cultural heritage reconstructions are twofold: the realism of architectural models is increased by populating them; and, as well, it...
Pablo de Heras Ciechomski, Branislav Ulicny, Rache...