Locomotive Building Practice

Building Immersive Conversation Environment Using Locomotive Interactive Character

Generating composite human motion such as locomotion and gestures is important for interactive applications, such as interactive storytelling and computer games. In interactive story environments, CG characters do not merely stand in one position. Rather, they should be able to compose gestures and locomotion based on the discourse of the story and the locations of objects in the scene. Thus, i...

Building practice-based evidence.

Building a Scorecard in Practice

Credit scoring is one of the most successful applications in banking and finance. However, most studies do not explain the whole process of scorecard development, probably due to the difficulty in obtaining credit scoring data. This study addresses some of the gaps that are present in the existing literature in that it explains in detail the processes, as performed in practice, of scorecard dev...

The Locomotive Routing Problem

Given a schedule of trains, the locomotive planning (or scheduling) problem (LPP) is to determine the minimum cost assignment of locomotive types to trains that satisfies a number of business and operational constraints. Once this is done, the railroad has to determine the sequence of trains to which each locomotive is assigned by unit number so that it can be fueled and serviced as necessary. ...

Grafting Locomotive Motions

The notion of transplanting limbs to enhance a motion capture database is appealing and has been recently introduced [Sha04], [Ike04]. A key difficulty in the process is identifying believable combinations. Not all transplantations are successful; we also need to identify appropriate frames in the different clips that are “cutpasted.” In this paper, we describe motion grafting, a method to synt...