Conveying emotions through facially animated avatars in networked virtual environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5277 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 222-233

  Di Fiore, Fabian ^a   Quax, Peter ^a   Vanaken, Cedric ^a   Lamotte, Wim ^a   Van Reeth, Frank ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Avatars; Emotions; Facial animation; Immersive communication; MPEG 4; Networked virtual environments

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; BANDWIDTH; EXTRACTION; INTERFACE STATES; METADATA; VIDEO STREAMING;

AVATARS; EMOTIONS; FACIAL ANIMATION; IMMERSIVE; MPEG-4; NETWORKED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 58049111488     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89220-5_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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