Automated avatar creation for 3D games

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Future Play, Future Play '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 174-180

  Hogue, Andrew ^a   Gill, Sunbir ^b   Jenkin, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES; CUSTOMIZABILITY; EXTRACT MODELS; FACIAL TEXTURES; KEY FACTORS; NON-INVASIVE; PHOTO-REALISTIC; PHYSICAL FEATURES; REAL OBJECTS; STEREO VIDEO; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATIONS;

ANIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MODELS; VIDEO CAMERAS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77954569719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328202.1328234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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