The application of MPEG-4 compliant animation to a modern games engine and animation framework

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

Volumn 6459 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 326-338

  Carter, Chris ^a   Cooper, Simon ^a   El Rhalibi, Abdennour ^a   Merabti, Madjid ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charisma; Facial Animation; FAPS; Homura; MPEG 4; Skinning

Indexed keywords

CHARISMA; FACIAL ANIMATION; FAPS; HOMURA; MPEG-4; SKINNING;

INVERSE KINEMATICS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ENGINES; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

ANIMATION;

EID: 78649638464     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16958-8_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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