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An artificial life environment for autonomous virtual agents with multi-sensorial and multi-perceptive features

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Challenges in Crowd Simulation

Daniel Thalmann, Jonathan Maim, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec, Barbara Yersin

The purpose of this paper is to identify the problems to solve in order to simulate real-time crowds in a Virtual Environment. We try to classify these problems and study how they have been addressed until now by the research community and our Lab in parti ...

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Control of Attention to Mental States and Multiple Critics

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Attentional modulation is needed when a decision maker is faced with too much information to process. In this paper we discuss the use of attention in control applications where usually higher order system dynamics are involved as typical benchmarks consid ...

2009

Vibrotactile Jacket For Perception Enhancement

Daniel Thalmann, Sylvain Cardin

By nature, human beings perceive their environment mostly using sight and audition. Vibrotactile feedback has proven satisfying results in the domains of simple multimodal interaction, for immersion and navigation purposes. The scope of this research is to ...

2008

Biologically Motivated Audio-Visual Cue Integration for Object

Barbara Caputo, Jie Luo

Auditory and visual cues are important sensor inputs for biological and artificial systems. They provide crucial information for navigating environments, recognizing categories, animals and people. How to combine effectively these two sensory channels is s ...

2008

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

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

Collaboration with agents in VR environments

Jan Ciger

Virtual reality is gaining on importance in many fields – scientific simulation, training, therapy and also more and more in entertainment. All these applications require the human user to interact with virtual worlds inhabited by intelligent characters an ...

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Multisensory learning cues using analytical collision detection between a needle and a tube

Etienne Burdet, Fei Wang

We are developing a Virtual Reality based training system for micromanipulation in collaboration with the National University Hospital in Singapore. While conventional approaches judge a virtual environment by its resemblance to the real environment, we us ...

2004

Multi-finger haptic rendering of deformable objects

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Sofiane Sarni, Anderson Maciel, Olivier Buchwalder

The present paper describes the integration of a multi-finger haptic device with deformable objects in an interactive environment. Repulsive forces are synthesized and rendered independently for each finger of a user wearing a Cybergrasp force-feedback glo ...

Eurographics Association2004

Speculative planning with delegation

Daniel Thalmann, Tolga Abaci, Jan Ciger

This paper presents a novel method of collaborative problem solving for intelligent agents in virtual environments. We describe a planner for STRIPS-like domains enhanced by techniques of "delegated computing". Instead of having one central planner with co ...

2004