Cognitive modeling: Knowledge, reasoning and planning for intelligent characters

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 29-38

  Funge, John ^a   Tu, Xiaoyuan ^a   Terzopoulos, Demetri ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action; Behavioral animation; Character animation; Cognitive modeling; Computer animation; Intelligent characters; Knowledge; Planning; Reasoning; Sensing

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACTION; BEHAVIORAL ANIMATION; CHARACTER ANIMATION; COGNITIVE MODEL; COMPUTER ANIMATION; INTELLIGENT CHARACTERS; KNOWLEDGE; REASONING; SENSING;

ANIMATION;

EID: 85028297758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/311535.311538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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