Responsive characters from motion fragments

Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  McCann, James ^a   Pollard, Nancy ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character control; Motion generation; Motion graphs

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER CONTROLS; GAME PROTOTYPE; MOTION FRAGMENTS; MOTION GENERATIONS; MOTION GRAPHS; ANIMATION SYSTEMS; CHARACTER ANIMATIONS; CHARACTER CONTROL; CHARACTER MOTIONS; DIRECT CONTROLS; DIRECTIONAL SIGNALS; EXISTING METHODS; GAME ENVIRONMENTS; GAMEPAD; MOTION ARTIFACTS; MOTION GENERATION; MOTION SEGMENTS; ON CURRENTS; OPTIMAL SELECTIONS; PLAYER BEHAVIORS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING METHODS; RESPONSIVE CHARACTERS; SIMPLE MODELS; THRESHOLDING;

ANIMATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; REINFORCEMENT;

MOTION ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 36949040585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1275808.1276385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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