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Virtual humans for virtual reality and augmented reality

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The tutorial will explain the techniques for integrating virtual humans into virtual and real environments. It will first present the concept of avatars and autonomous virtual actors and the main techniques to create and animate them (body and face). It wi ...

IEEE Comput. Soc2003

Stable Real-Time Interaction Between Virtual Humans and Real Scenes

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We present an augmented reality system that relies on purely passive techniques to solve the real-time registration problem. It can run on a portable PC and does not require engineering of the environment, for example by adding markers. To achieve this res ...

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