Real-time display of virtual humans: Levels of details and impostors

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 207-217

  Aubel, Amaury ^a   Boulic, Ronan ^a,b   Thalmann, Daniel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

IMAGE CACHING; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0033904230     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.825720     Document Type: Article

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