Why is the creation of a virtual signer challenging computer animation?

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

Volumn 6459 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 290-300

  Courty, Nicolas ^a   Gibet, Sylvie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANIMATION; POSSIBLE FUTURES; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; DEAF PEOPLES;

COMMUNICATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 78649651760     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16958-8_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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