Hierarchical animation control of avatars in 3-D virtual environments

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1333-1341

  Yang, Xiaoli ^a   Petriu, Dorina C ^b   Whalen, Thom E ^c   Petriu, Emil M ^d  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Industry Canada   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animation; Anthropomorphic avatar; Behavior based control; Script language; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NEURAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC AVATAR; BEHAVIOR BASED CONTROL; SCRIPT LANGUAGE; VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE (VRML);

ANIMATION;

EID: 20544478210     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.847134     Document Type: Article

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