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Interacting with virtual humans through body actions

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Luc Emering
1998
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Abstract

Since their inception, interactive virtual environments have not been able to interpret users' gestures. Researchers have investigated a few tentative solutions, but most of them concern a specific set of body parts like hands, arms, or facial expressions. However, when placing a participant in a virtual world to interact with synthetic inhabitants, it would be more convenient and intuitive to use body-oriented actions. To achieve this, we developed a hierarchical model of human actions based on fine-grained primitives. An associated recognition algorithm identifies simultaneous actions on the fly

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Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Luc Emering
1998
Journal Articles

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/7509bd6e-3172-45d3-9206-f1f3fb734689

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