An artificial life environment for autonomous virtual agents with multi-sensorial and multi-perceptive features

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 311-318

  Conde, Toni ^b   Thalmann, Daniel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Artificial life; Perception; Virtual autonomous agents; Virtual environment; Virtual sensors

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; NEUROLOGY; SENSORS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VISION;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; SENSORY SYSTEM; VIRTUAL AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; VIRTUAL SENSORS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 23444450946     PISSN: 15464261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cav.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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