Efficient compression and delivery of stored motion data for avatar animation in resource constrained devices

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 235-243

  Chattopadhyay, Siddhartha ^a   Bhandarkar, Suchendra M ^a   Li, Kang ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatar Animation; Distributed Virtual Reality; Human Motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATA COMPRESSION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AVATAR ANIMATION; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL REALITY; HUMAN MOTION; MOTION DATA RECONSTRUCTION;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 33748677123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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