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Expressive Body Animation Pipeline for Virtual Agent

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2012)

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In this paper, we present our expressive body-gestures animation synthesis model for our Embodied Conversational Agent(ECA) technology. Our implementation builds upon a full body reach model using a hybrid kinematics solution. We describe the full pipeline of our model that starts from a symbolic description of behaviors, to the construction of a set of keyframes till the generation of the whole animation enhanced with expressive qualities. Our approach offers convincing visual quality results obtained with high real-time performance.

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  1. Telecom ParisTech - CNRS, Paris, France

    Jing Huang & Catherine Pelachaud

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  1. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Seikei University, Musashino-shi, 180-8633, Tokyo, Japan

    Yukiko Nakano

  2. Department of Computer Science and Program for Technocultural Studies, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, 95616, Davis, CA, U.S.A.

    Michael Neff

  3. Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 N. High SOE-3, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

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Huang, J., Pelachaud, C. (2012). Expressive Body Animation Pipeline for Virtual Agent. In: Nakano, Y., Neff, M., Paiva, A., Walker, M. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7502. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_36

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