Design of a virtual human presenter

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 79-85

  Noma, Tsukasa ^a   Zhao, Liwei ^b   Badler, Norman I ^b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN LOCOMOTION; MENU BASED INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; PARALLEL TRANSITION NETWORKS; VIRTUAL BOARD MAPPING; VIRTUAL HUMAN PRESENTER SYSTEM;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; FINITE AUTOMATA; HTTP; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SYNCHRONIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANIMATION;

EID: 0033689047     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/38.851755     Document Type: Article

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