Changing personalities: towards realistic virtual characters

Changing personalities: towards realistic virtual characters

Computer modelling of personality and behaviour is becoming increasingly important in many fields of computer science and psychology. Personality and emotion-driven Believable Agents are needed in areas like human–machine interfaces, electronic advertising and, most notably, electronic entertainment. Computer models of personality can help explain personality by illustrating its underlying stru...

Perception of Body and Hand Animations for Realistic Virtual Characters

Researchers and artists bring astonishing cartoon style characters and fantasy creatures to life. However, despite great improvements in recent years, creating a persuasive and highly realistic virtual human is still a big challenge. The motions of a virtual character in a movie or in a game have a large impact on the observer’s impression of it. People are remarkably good in recognizing human ...

Automatic Generation of Realistic Behaviors for Virtual Characters in 3D Multi-user Virtual Environments(II)

Towards more realistic indoor environments for the Virtual Robot Competition

Simulations could make testing of mobile robot systems less strenuous in terms of time spent for setting scenarios and performing experiments. The USARSim simulator used in the Virtual Robot Competition has shown a good degree of realism in modeling the laws of physics that influence the behavior of robot sensors and actuators. However, the environments in which the robots of the Virtual Robot ...

Towards more Realistic and Efficient Virtual Environment Description and Usage

We treat in this paper two linked subjects underlying virtual environment description: topological abstraction, and the way its precomputed data can be accessed by autonomous agents. The topological abstraction we propose is composed of three hierarchical layers, the first being the subdivision cells graph, and the two others being successive groupings. Then, we highlight some preprocesses comp...