The saliency of anomalies in animated human characters

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Hodgins, Jessica ^a   JÖrg, Sophie ^b   O'Sullivan, Carol ^b   Mahler, Moshe ^c   Park, Sang Il ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Human animation; Motion capture; Perception of human motion; Virtual characters

Indexed keywords

EYE-TRACKING; HUMAN ANIMATION; HUMAN MOTIONS; MOTION CAPTURE; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

ANIMATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77955193661     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1823738.1823740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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