Virtual human representation and communication in VLNet

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 42-53

  Capin, Tolga K ^a,c,d,e   Noser, Hansrudi ^a,c,g,h   Thalmann, Daniel ^a,b,c   Pandzic, Igor Sunday ^b,c,e,f   Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Virtual Humans Arch Grp MPEG 4 S   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h Balzers AG   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL LIFE NETWORKS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0031100395     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/38.574680     Document Type: Article

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