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Visualization of local movements for optimal marker positioning

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Marius-Calin Silaghi

Motion capture has been adopted for the production of highly realistic movements, as well as for the clinical analysis of pathological motion. In both cases, a skeleton model has to be identified to derive the joint motion. The optical technology has gaine ...

2000

Path finding for human motion in virtual environments

Daniel Thalmann

This paper presents an efficient and robust technique for generating global motion paths for a human model in virtual environments. Initially, a scene is discretized using raster hardware to generate an environment map. An obstacle-free cell path sub-optim ...

2000

Augmented reality for real and virtual humans

Daniel Thalmann, Pascal Fua, Michal Ponder

Current virtual reality technologies provide many ways to interact with virtual humans. Most of those techniques, however, are limited to synthetic elements and require cumbersome sensors. We have combined a real-time simulation and rendering platform with ...

IEEE Comput. Soc. Press2000

Individual and group behaviours for virtual humans

Daniel Thalmann

This paper summarizes recent experiences and case studies to model behaviors of virtual humans in three typical situations: interaction with complex objects, interaction with the user in immersive environments, and social behaviors in crowds ...

IEEE Comput. Soc2000

Anatomic modeling of deformable human bodies

Daniel Thalmann

We propose a method to simulate human bodies based on anatomy concepts. We believe that the closer our model is to reality, the better our results will be. Using this approach, we are developing our human representation. Our model is divided into three lay ...

2000

Verbal communication using approximate sound propagation to design an inter-agents communication language

Daniel Thalmann, Jean-Sébastien Monzani

We present a method for generating conversations between human-like agents by proposing specific parameters for inter-agents messages with an approximation of virtual sound propagation. We are then be able to simulate appropriate human-like behaviours auto ...

ACM2000

Requirements for an architecture for believable social agents

Daniel Thalmann, Anthony Guye-Vuillème

This paper introduces four sociological concepts which we argue are important for the creation of autonomous social agents capable of behaving and interacting realistically with each other as virtual humans. A list of functional requirements based on these ...

ACM2000

A paradigm for controlling virtual humans in urban environment simulations

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic

Presents a new architecture for simulating virtual humans in complex urban environments. The approach is based on the integration of six modules. Four key modules are used in order to manage environmental data, simulate human crowds, control interactions b ...

Taylor & Francis2000

Real-time display of virtual humans: levels of details and impostors

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Amaury Aubel

Rendering and animating in real-time a multitude of articulated characters presents a real challenge, and few hardware systems are up to the task. Up to now, little research has been conducted to tackle the issue of real-time rendering of numerous virtual ...

IEEE2000

Virtual human life simulation and database: why and how

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic

In combination with the rapid technical improvements of computers, building large virtual scenes has become a popular field in computer graphics. Often, within a real reconstructed city, a building that has disappeared, or a virtual town, virtual humans po ...

1999