Fast and learnable behavioral and cognitive modeling for virtual character animation

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-108

  Dinerstein, Jonathan ^a   Egbert, Parris K ^a   De Garis, Hugo ^b   Dinerstein, Nelson ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brigham Young University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral modeling; Cognitive modeling; Computer animation; Machine learning; Reinforcement learning; Synthetic characters

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL MODELING; COGNITIVE MODELING; COMPUTER ANIMATION; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SYNTHETIC CHARACTERS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 23444439826     PISSN: 15464261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cav.8     Document Type: Article

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