Automatic design of a control interface for a synthetic face

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 207-216

  Stoiber, Nicolas ^a   Seguier, Renaud ^b   Breton, Gaspard ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b SUPELEC Campus de Rennes   (France)

Author keywords

AAM; Avatar; Facial animation; Traveling salesman problem; User interface; Virtual character

Indexed keywords

AAM; AUTOMATIC DESIGN; AVATAR; CONTROL INTERFACES; CONTROL PARAMETERS; CONTROL SPACES; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; EFFICIENT CONTROL; EXPERT USERS; FACIAL ANIMATION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMAN FACES; HUMAN USERS; INTERFACE GENERATION; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SPACES; SYNTHETIC CHARACTER; SYNTHETIC FACES; TEMPORAL SEQUENCES; VARIATION PATTERN; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

ANIMATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DEFORMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

EID: 73549109774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1502650.1502681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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