Eye-catching crowds: Saliency based selective variation

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  McDonnell, Rachel ^a   Larkin, Michéal ^a   Hernández, Benjamín ^b   Rudomin, Isaac ^b   O'Sullivan, Carol ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Crowd rendering; Eye tracking; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

BODY PARTS; CROWD RENDERING; EYE TRACKING DEVICES; EYE-TRACKING; FACIAL GEOMETRY; ON-BODY; TEXTURE VARIATION; VARIATION METHOD; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

TEXTURES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 68349137164     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1531326.1531361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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