Automating the transfer of a generic set of behaviors onto a virtual character

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

Volumn 7660 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 134-145

  Feng, Andrew ^a   Huang, Yazhou ^b   Xu, Yuyu ^a   Shapiro, Ari ^a  

^a Institute for Creative Technologies ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

animation; graphics; retargeting; system

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANIMATION SYSTEMS; CONTROL MECHANISM; GRAPHICS; OBJECT MANIPULATION; RETARGETING; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SYSTEM; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

ANIMATION;

EID: 84869744329     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34710-8_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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