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Towards interactive real-time crowd behavior simulation

Daniel Thalmann, Branislav Ulicny

While virtual crowds are becoming common in non-real-time applications, the real-time domain is still relatively unexplored. In this paper we discuss the challenges involved in creating such simulations, especially the need to efficiently manage variety. W ...

Blackwell Publishers for Eurographics Assoc2002

Sharing attractions on the Net with VPark

Daniel Thalmann, Joaquim Esmerado

We present a networked virtual environment (NVE) system and an attraction building system based on Windows NT that enables users to introduce their own scenario-based applications into a shared virtual environment. Our goal was to develop and integrate sev ...

IEEE2001

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

VPARK - A Windows NT software platform for a virtual networked amusement park

Daniel Thalmann, Joaquim Esmerado

Presents the VPARK (Virtual Park) system, which includes a networked virtual environment (NVE) system called W-VLNET and an “attraction building system” that is able to create and modify the attractions used in the NVE. Both systems have been developed in ...

2000

A Distributed Architecture for Teleoperation over the Internet with Application to the Remote Control of an Inverted Pendulum

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

This paper discusses challenges in enabling teleoperation over the Internet for the specific case of real systems which exhibit fast dynamics. A distributed client-server architecture is proposed to provide the necessary level of interactivity for supervis ...

2000

CAIAS: camera agent based on intelligent action spotting for real-time participatory animation in virtual stage

Daniel Thalmann

Nowadays, it becomes possible to show a live virtual stage application allowing a human's real time participation by motion capture. The big problem in participatory animation is figuring out where to place the camera and in what direction to point it to p ...

1999

VHD: a system for directing real-time virtual actors

Daniel Thalmann

We present a system dedicated to the real-time production of multimedia products and TV shows involving multiple virtual actors and presenters. This system, named VHD (virtual human director), may also be used for character animation on high-level systems ...

Springer-Verlag1999

A dead-reckoning technique for streaming virtual human animation

Daniel Thalmann, Joaquim Esmerado

In networked virtual environments (NVEs), users are represented by their virtual embodiments. The articulated structure of these embodiments introduces a new complexity in the representation and streaming of animations, especially when the number of partic ...

1999

Real-time animation of realistic virtual humans

Daniel Thalmann, Amaury Aubel

The authors have been working on simulating virtual humans for several years. Until recently, these constructs could not act in real time. Today, however, many applications need to simulate in real time virtual humans that look realistic. They have investe ...

IEEE1998

Animating virtual actors in real environments

Daniel Thalmann

This paper provides a detailed and complete description of merging virtual actors with animation in a real environment. It describes the tasks involved in each stage of integration, such as video acquisition, extraction of camera parameters, creation and a ...

Springer-Verlag1997