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Multimodal authoring tool for populating a database of emotional reactive animations

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez
2006
Conference Papers

Abstract

We aim to create a model of emotional reactive virtual humans. This model will help to define realistic behavior for virtual characters based on emotions and events in the virtual environment to which they react. A large set of pre-recorded animations will be used to obtain such model. We have defined a knowledge-based system to store animations of reflex movements taking into account personality and emotional state. Populating such a database is a complex task. In this paper we describe a multimodal authoring tool that provides a solution to this problem. Our multimodal tool makes use of motion capture equipment, a handheld device and a large projection screen

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Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez
2006
Conference Papers

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/d59d7913-cc51-4481-adca-e157b66f6326

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