A MPEG-4 virtual human animation engine for interactive web based applications

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 554-559

  Gutiérrez, Mario ^a   Vexo, Frédéric ^a   Thalmann, Daniel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION ENGINE; DEFORMABLE MODELS; EUROPEAN PROJECT; FULL BODY; INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA; TALKING HEADS; VIRTUAL HUMANS; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

ANIMATION; COMMUNICATION; DEFORMATION; ENGINES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 3042691247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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