Augmenting gesture animation with motion capture data to provide full-body engagement

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

Volumn 5773 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 405-417

  Luo, Pengcheng ^a   Kipp, Michael ^b   Neff, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied Conversational Agents; Motion Capture; Posture Synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED AGENTS; ARM GESTURES; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; FULL BODY; FULL-BODY MOTIONS; FULL-BODY MOVEMENT; GESTURE ANIMATION; LOWER BODY; MARKOV MODEL; MOTION CAPTURE; MOTION CAPTURE DATA; POSTURE SYNTHESIS; PREDICTION MODEL; PROCEDURAL ANIMATION; USER STUDY; WHOLE BODY;

ANIMATION; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; GESTURE RECOGNITION; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 70350419683     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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