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CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Melting and Flowing of Viscous Volumes
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...
Xiaoming Wei, Wei Li, Arie E. Kaufman
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling Hair Using Level-of-Detail Representations
: 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...
Kelly Ward, Ming C. Lin, Joohi Lee, Susan Fisher, ...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Inserting Synthetic Characters into Live-Action Scenes of Multiple People
— 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...
Arunachalam Somasundaram, Rick Paren
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Satisfying the Perceived Need for Free-Play in Pedagogically Oriented Interactive Dramas
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...
Barry G. Silverman, Michael Johns, Ransom Weaver
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Bottom-Up Visual Attention for Virtual Human Animation
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...
Christopher Peters, Carol O'Sullivan
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
XSTEP: A Markup Language for Embodied Agents
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...
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, Cees T. Visser
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Procedural Approach to Animate Interactive Natural Sceneries
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 ...
Sylvain Guerraz, Frank Perbet, David Raulo, Fran&c...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Expressive Gesture Animation Based on Non Parametric Learning of Sensory-Motor Models
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...
Sylvie Gibet, Pierre-Francois Marteau
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Reactive Pedestrian Path Following from Examples
Ronald A. Metoyer, Jessica K. Hodgins