CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
Shadows are of great importance to computer graphics, especially for interactive animation due to the visual cues which they provide. Most research in the field of dynamic shadowi...
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
In this paper we propose a method to simulate human beings based on anatomy concepts. We believe that the closer our model is to reality, the better will be our results. Using thi...
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
We present MikeTalk, a text-to-audiovisual speech synthesizer which converts input text into an audiovisual speech stream. MikeTalk is built using visemes, which are a set of imag...
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
The new MPEG-4 standard, scheduled to become an International Standard in February 1999, will include support not only for natural video and audio, but also for synthetic graphics...
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
The importance of faces in human interaction explains the desire for synthetic faces as a communication vehicle in computer graphics. Unfortunately, animating a face is a very com...
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper presents a voxel-based animation technique which employs either a massspring modelor a niteelementmodel. The voxel-basedmeshis generated in a pre-processing step. Two v...
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
Integrating virtual human's animation in networked virtual environments (NVEs) has the potential to create severe network load issues. In NVEs, users are represented by their...
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
An algorithm for simulating simultaneous collision impulse with friction working at multiple collision points between three dimensional rigid bodies is described. We also present ...
CA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper presents a system for animating customized virtual humans using motion parameters estimated from multi-view image sequences. The advantage of our method is that the sub...