CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present a simple, linear 3D cellular automata approach for animating the melting process of solid volumetric models. Accurate modelling of object melting usually requires compl...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
: We present a novel approach for modeling hair using level-of-detail representations. The set of representations include individual strands, hair clusters, and hair strips. They a...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
— Using a single camera, we capture video of multiple people walking in an open area and insert a moving synthetic character into the scene. The people are located in the video u...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This research explores ways of harnessing people’s passion for entertainment in order to stimulate players to attain the meta-learning skills they need for lifelong learning and...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present a system for the automatic generation of bottom-up visual attention behaviours in virtual humans. Bottom-up attention refers to the way in which the environment solicit...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper we propose an XML-based markup language, called XSTEP, for embodied agents, based on the scripting language STEP. XSTEP is the XML-based successor of STEP. The scrip...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper presents a method for animating and rendering an interactive natural scenery in real-time. It improves the prairie model of [11] by enabling the on-the-fly generation ...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper presents an efficient method of learning motion control for autonomous animated characters. The method uses a non parametric learning approach which identifies non line...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Agent design has to date concerned itself with the issues pertaining to a single body embedded in a single environment, whether virtual or real. This paper discusses the notion of...