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Virtual assistant

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Adaptive cooperation between driver and assistant system to improve the road safety

The last decades have seen the most important improvements of the safety on the road. But most of the accidents are still coming from the driver when a source of danger is not noticed or when the reaction is not correct during an unusual situation. Two way ...

EPFL2006

An integrated perception for autonomous virtual agents: active and predictive perception

Daniel Thalmann, Toni Conde

This paper presents an original model with methodologies that integrate in a novel way different types of an autonomous virtual agent's perception in a virtual environment. Our first new approach permits the coherent management of the shared virtual enviro ...

Wiley2006

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUILDING AN INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ASSISTANT

A method and apparatus are provided for building an intelligent automated assistant. ...

2006

Dynamic Obstacle Clearing for Real-time Character Animation

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Pascal Glardon

This paper proposes a novel method to control virtual characters in dynamic environments. A virtual character is animated by a locomotion and jumping engine, enabling production of continuous parameterized motions. At any time during runtime, flat obstacle ...

Springer-Verlag2006

Emotional face expression profiles supported by virtual human ontology

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

Expressive facial animation synthesis of human like characters has had many approaches with good results. MPEG-4 standard has functioned as the basis of many of those approaches. In this paper we would like to lay out the knowledge of some of those approac ...

2006

Multimodal authoring tool for populating a database of emotional reactive animations

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Alejandra Garcia Rojas Martinez

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 ...

2006

Autonomous virtual agents learning a cognitive model and evolving

Daniel Thalmann, Toni Conde

In this paper, we propose a new integration approach to simulate an autonomous virtual agent's cognitive learning of a task for interactive virtual environment applications. Our research focuses on the behavioural animation of virtual humans capable of act ...

2005

A motivational model of action selection for virtual humans

Daniel Thalmann, Etienne De Sevin

Nowadays virtual humans such as non-player characters in computer games need to have a real autonomy in order to live their own life in persistent virtual worlds. When designing autonomous virtual humans, the action selection problem needs to be considered ...

2005

Building exposure: synergy of interaction and narration through the social channel

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin, Michal Ponder

The ability to build and control exposure through a seamless synergy of interaction and narration is a strongly required feature of a new type of immersive-VR training and therapy system. This paper presents a practical approach for immersive-VR training a ...

MIT Press2005

Virtual humans: thirty years of research, what next?

Daniel Thalmann

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 huma ...

Springer-Verlag2005

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