SimHuman: A platform for real-time virtual agents with planning capabilities

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

Volumn 2190, Issue , 2001, Pages 210-223

  Vosinakis, Spyros ^a   Panayiotopoulos, Themis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autonomous virtual humans; Believable agents; Planning; Real time animation; Simulation; Virtual agents; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTONOMOUS VIRTUAL HUMANS; BELIEVABLE AGENT; REAL-TIME ANIMATIONS; SIMULATION; VIRTUAL AGENT;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 84944200910     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44812-8_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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