16th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents. 8-9 May 2003, New Brunswick, New Jersey : proceedings / co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (TCVG) and the Computer Graphics Society.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

IEEE Xplore (Online service)

IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics.

Computer Graphics Society.

IEEE Computer Society.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (16th : 2003 : New Brunswick, N.J.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer animation--Congresses.

Computer animation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 175 pages : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Computer animation and social agents

CASA 2003

Place of Publication:

Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society, [2003]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

Online Socializing and Virtual Worlds / W. Harvey

Session 1 Social and Conversational Agents

Towards a Simulation of Conversations with Expressive Embodied Speakers and Listeners / T. Rist, M. Schmitt, C. Pelachaud, M. Bilvi 5

Crafting the Illusion of Meaning: Template-Based Specification of Embodied Conversational Behavior / M. Stone, D. DeCarlo 11

Language-Driven Nonverbal Communication in a Bilingual Conversational Agent / S. King, A. Knott, B. McCane 17

How Believable Are Real Faces? Towards a Perceptual Basis for Conversational Animation / D. Cunningham, M. Breidt, M. Kleiner, C. Wallraven, H. Bulthoff 23

Session 2 Physics-Based Animation

Improvements on a Simple Muscle-Based 3D Face for Realistic Facial Expressions / T. Bui, D. Heylen, A. Nijholt 33

Modeling Hair Using Level-of-Detail Representations / K. Ward, M. Lin, J. Lee, S. Fisher, D. Macri 41

Bi-layered Mass-Spring Model for Fast Deformations of Flexible Linear Bodies / T. Di Giacomo, N. Magnenat-Thalmann 48

Melting and Flowing of Viscous Volumes / X. Wei, W. Li, A. Kaufman 54

ElasticPaint: A Particle System for Feature Mapping with Minimum Distortion / C. Carner, H. Qin 60

Panel 1 Social Agents: Making Them Work / Chair: N. Badler, Panelist: Will Harvey, Panelist: Daniel Thalmann, Panelist: Barry Silverman

Session 3 Interaction, Control and Planning

A Procedural Approach to Animate Interactive Natural Sceneries / S. Guerraz, F. Perbet, D. Raulo, F. Faure, M.-P. Cani 73

Expressive Gesture Animation Based on Non Parametric Learning of Sensory-Motor Models / S. Gibet, P.-F. Marteau 79

Real-Time Reach Planning for Animated Characters Using Hardware Acceleration / Y. Liu, N. Badler 86

Realistic Human Walking Paths / D. Brogan, N. Johnson 94

Session 4 AI-Based Animation and Alife

XSTEP: A Markup Language for Embodied Agents / Z. Huang, A. Eliens, C. Visser 105

Bottom-Up Visual Attention for Virtual Human Animation / C. Peters, C. O'Sullivan 111

Agent Chameleons: Agent Minds and Bodies / B. Duffy, G. O'Hare, A. Martin, J. Bradley, B. Schon 118

Modeling Virtual Ecosystems with the Proactive Guidance of Agents / B. Benes, E. Espinosa 126

Old Pyramids to New Paradigms: Simulation's Challenge to 4,000 years of Medicine / S. Dawson

Session 5 Modeling of Groups and Crowds

Inserting Synthetic Characters into Live-Action Scenes of Multiple People / A. Somasundaram, R. Parent 137

Modeling Individual Behaviors in Crowd Simulation / A. Braun, S. Musse, L. de Oliveira, B. Bodmann 143

Reactive Pedestrian Path Following from Examples / R. Metoyer, J. Hodgins 149

Panel 2 Virtual Humans: Past, Present and Future / Chair: N. Magnenat-Thalmann, Panelist: Dimitris Metaxas, Panelist: Rick Parent, Panelist: Catherine Pelachaud, Panelist: Daniel Thalmann

Session 6 Design Issues in Games and Virtual Environments

Satisfying the Perceived Need for Free-Play in Pedagogically Oriented Interactive Dramas / B. Silverman, M. Johns, R. Weaver 161

Conceptual, Communicative and Pragmatic Aspects of Interaction Forms

Rich Interaction Model for Collaborative Virtual Environments / T. Manninen 168.

Notes:

"IEEE Computer Society Order Number PR01934"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0769519342

9780769519340

OCLC:

52792516

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.