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CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
How Believable Are Real Faces? Towards a Perceptual Basis for Conversational Animation
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...
Douglas W. Cunningham, Martin Breidt, Mario Kleine...
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
ElasticPaint: A Particle System for Feature Mapping with Minimum Distortion
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...
Christopher Carner, Hong Qin
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Language-Driven Nonverbal Communication in a Bilingual Conversational Agent
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...
Scott A. King, Alistair Knott, Brendan McCane
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Improvements on a Simple Muscle-Based 3D Face for Realistic Facial Expressions
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...
The Duy Bui, Dirk Heylen, Anton Nijholt
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Realistic Human Walking Paths
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...
David C. Brogan, Nicholas L. Johnson
CA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Modeling Individual Behaviors in Crowd Simulation
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...
Adriana Braun, Soraia Raupp Musse, Luiz Paulo Luna...
HUMO
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Boosted Multiple Deformable Trees for Parsing Human Poses
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...
Yang Wang 0003, Greg Mori
HUMO
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Semi-Latent Dirichlet Allocation: A Hierarchical Model for Human Action Recognition
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...
Yang Wang 0003, Payam Sabzmeydani, Greg Mori
HUMO
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-activity Tracking in LLE Body Pose Space
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...
Tobias Jaeggli, Esther Koller-Meier, Luc J. Van Go...
HUMO
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling Human Locomotion with Topologically Constrained Latent Variable Models
Abstract. Learned, activity-specific motion models are useful for human pose and motion estimation. Nevertheless, while the use of activityspecific models simplifies monocular t...
Raquel Urtasun, David J. Fleet, Neil D. Lawrence