Learning finite-state machine controllers from motion capture data

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-72

  Gillies, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 D animation; Game AI; Machine learning; Motion capture

Indexed keywords

3-D ANIMATION; COMPUTER GAME; FINITE STATE MACHINES; GAME AI; INTERACTIVE MEDIA; MACHINE LEARNING; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MOTION CAPTURE; MOTION CAPTURE DATA; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

ANIMATION; CONTOUR FOLLOWERS; GAME THEORY; ROBOT LEARNING; SIGNAL ENCODING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EDUCATION;

EID: 76649087824     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2009.2019630     Document Type: Article

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