CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Regardless of whether the humans involved are virtual or real, well-developed conversational skills are a necessity. The synthesis of interface agents that are not only understand...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Mapping of features such as texture and geometric detail is an important tool that enhances realism of surface geometry in graphics and animation. This essentially involves a tran...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper describes an animated conversational agent called Kare1 which integrates a talking head interface with a linguistically motivated human-machine dialogue system. The age...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Facial expressions play an important role in face-to-face communication. With the development of personal computers capable of rendering high quality graphics, computer facial ani...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Pedestrian navigation is a complex function of human dynamics, a desired destination, and the presence of obstacles. People cannot stop and start instantaneously and their turning...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper presents a model for studying the impact of individual agents characteristics in emergent groups, on the evacuation efficiency as a result of local interactions. We use...
HUMO
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Tree-structured models have been widely used for human pose estimation, in either 2D or 3D. While such models allow efficient learning and inference, they fail to capture additiona...
HUMO
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
We propose a new method for human action recognition from video sequences using latent topic models. Video sequences are represented by a novel “bag-of-words” representation, w...
HUMO
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
We present a method to simultaneously estimate 3d body pose and action categories from monocular video sequences. Our approach learns a lowdimensional embedding of the pose manifol...
HUMO
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. Learned, activity-specific motion models are useful for human pose and motion estimation. Nevertheless, while the use of activityspecific models simplifies monocular t...