Embodied in a look: Bridging the gap between humans and avatars

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2792, Issue , 2003, Pages 111-118

  Courty, Nicolas ^a   Breton, Gaspard ^b   Pelé, Danielle ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; USER INTERFACES;

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS (ECA); FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; POSTURES; WEBCAM; ANIMATION SYSTEMS; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; FACIAL ANIMATION; INPUT IMAGE; MUSCLE-BASED; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS; VIRTUAL AGENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 9444247034     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39396-2_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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