The HUMANOID Environment for Interactive Animation of Multiple Deformable Human Characters

Boulic, Ronan; Çapın, Tolga; Huang, Zhiyong; Kalra, Prem Kumar; Lintermann, Bernd; Magnenat‐Thalmann, Nadia; Moccozet, Laurent; Molet, Tom; Pandžić, Igor S.; Saar, Kurt; Schmitt, Alfred; Shen, Ju; Thalmann, Daniel

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8659.1995.cgf143_0337.x

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“…In any given body posture (defined by a set of joint angles) this engine will provide a defonned body ready to be rendered. TI1e body representation is based on the Humanoid body model (Boulic, 1995). Titis engine provides the interface for changing the body posture.…”

Section: Vlnetcorementioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative work using our Virtual Reality Network System (VLNET)

Thalmann

Pandžić

1997

Computer Applications in Production and Engineering

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Networked Collaborative Virtual Environments (NCVE) are systems that allow several geographically distant users to collaborate within the common 3D virtual environment The users become part of the environment represented by graphical embodiments and they can interact with the environment and with each other. We analyze the importance of good graphical representation of each user for communication and collaboration. The Virtual Life Network (VLNET) system is an NCVE using sophisticated Virtual Humans as user embodiments to improve collaboration. We describe the system and some experimental applications.

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confidence: 99%

Collaborative work using our Virtual Reality Network System (VLNET)

Thalmann

Pandžić

1997

Computer Applications in Production and Engineering

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“…Finally, this synthetic image is composited with the image of the real scene to generate the output image. Virtual human creation and animation is based on the existing Humanoid 2 Esprit European project [3]. However, in all these cases, the virtual humans are not autonomous at all.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Interaction Between Real and Virtual Humans: Playing Checkers

Torre

Fua

Balcısoy

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Virtual Environments 2000

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Abstract. For some years, we have been able to integrate virtual humans into virtual environments. As the demand for Augmented Reality systems grows, so will the need for these synthetic humans to coexist and interact with humans who live in the real world. In this paper, we use the example of a checkers game between a real and a virtual human to demonstrate the integration of techniques required to achieve a realistic-looking interaction in real-time. We do not use cumbersome devices such as a magnetic motion capture system. Instead, we rely on purely image-based techniques to address the registration issue, when the camera or the objects move, and to drive the virtual human's behavior.

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“…For example, Boulic et al proposed the walking engine described in [22] which has been extended in the context of a European project on virtual human modeling [23]. Their contribution consists in integrating the walking engine as a specialized action in the animation framework.…”

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Virtual humans: thirty years of research, what next?

Magnenat‐Thalmann

Thalmann

2005

Visual Comput

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In this paper, we present research results and future challenges in creating realistic and believable Virtual Humans. To realize these modeling goals, real-time realistic representation is essential, but we also need interactive and perceptive Virtual Humans to populate the Virtual Worlds. Three levels of modeling should be considered to create these believable Virtual Humans: 1) realistic appearance modeling, 2) realistic, smooth and flexible motion modeling, and 3) realistic high-level behaviors modeling. At first, the issues of creating virtual humans with better skeleton and realistic deformable bodies are illustrated. To give a level of believable behavior, challenges are laid on generating on the fly flexible motion and complex behaviours of Virtual Humans inside their environments using a realistic perception of the environment. Interactivity and group behaviours are also important parameters to create believable Virtual Humans which have challenges in creating believable relationship between real and virtual humans based on emotion and personality, and simulating realistic and believable behaviors of groups and crowds. Finally, issues in generating realistic virtual clothed and haired people are presented.

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The HUMANOID Environment for Interactive Animation of Multiple Deformable Human Characters

Cited by 62 publications

References 20 publications

Collaborative work using our Virtual Reality Network System (VLNET)

Collaborative work using our Virtual Reality Network System (VLNET)

Interaction Between Real and Virtual Humans: Playing Checkers

Virtual humans: thirty years of research, what next?

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