3D animation of telecollaborative anthropomorphic avatars: A high-performance solution offers faster 3D representation of users by avatars without compromising real-time interactivity

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 64-67

  Luciano, Cristian ^a   Banerjee, Pat ^a   Mehrotra, Sanjay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0012987609     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/501317.501346     Document Type: Article

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