Formational parameters and adaptive prototype instantiation for MPEG-4 compliant gesture synthesis

Proceedings of Computer Animation 2002, CA 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 111-119

  Hartmann, Björn ^a   Mancini, Maurizio ^b   Pelachaud, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANIMATION SYSTEMS; ARM GESTURES; CONTEXT CONSTRAINT; HAND ARMS; KEY-FRAMES; PLANNING ALGORITHMS; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 85117736935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CA.2002.1017516     Document Type: Conference Paper

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