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

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Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic

Agents in virtual environments require a combination of perception and action to behave in an autonomous way. We extend a software architecture for the management of actions blending, called AGENTlib, with a perception mechanism. The perception system prov ...

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Towards autonomous, perceptive, and intelligent virtual actors

Daniel Thalmann

Explains methods to provide autonomous virtual humans with the skills necessary to perform stand-alone roles in films, games and interactive television. We present current research developments in the virtual life of autonomous synthetic actors. After a br ...

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Conferring human action recognition skills to life-like agents

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic

Most of today's virtual environments are populated with some kind of autonomous life-like agents. Such agents follow a preprogrammed sequence of behaviours that excludes the user as a participating entity in the virtual society. In order to make inhabited ...

1999

Autonomous virtual actors based on virtual sensors

Daniel Thalmann, Zhouji Huang

We present current research developments in the Virtual Life of autonomous synthetic actors. After a brief description of the perception action principles with a few simple examples, we emphasize the concept of virtual sensors for virtual humans. In partic ...

1997

Evolution of neural control structures: Some experiments on mobile robots

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

From perception to action and form action to perception, all elements of an autonomous agent are interdependent and need to be strongly coherent. The final behavior of the agent is the result of the global activity of this loop and every weakness of incohe ...

1995

Consistent grasping in virtual environments based on the interactive grasping automata

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Proposes a general framework to enhance grasping interactions of an operator wearing a digital glove. The authors focus on a consistent interpretation of the posture information acquired with the glove in order to reflect the grasp of virtual artifacts. Th ...

Springer-Verlag1995

Perceptually tuned generation of grayscale fonts

Roger Hersch

A new approach to grayscale font generation improves on the fuzzy characters produced by existing methods by incorporating the expertise of type designers into rules for character-outline weight and phase control. The method we propose for synthesizing hig ...

1995

Active Perception, Navigation, Homing, and Grasping: An autonomous Perspective

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

Perception is needed for action, not for the pure sake of the construction of abstract representations, although it does not exclude the role of internal representations for mediating complex behaviors. We think that, for the purpose of building autonomous ...

1994

Autonomous virtual humans in virtual worlds

Daniel Thalmann

Summary form only given. This paper discusses the problem of control and autonomy of synthetic actors. It first describes an animation approach where synthetic vision is used for navigation by a synthetic actor. The vision is the only channel of informatio ...

Int. Acad. Publishers1993