A vision-based approach to behavioural animation

This paper presents an innovative way of animating actors at a high level based on the concept of synthetic vision. The objective is simple: to create an animation involving a synthetic actor automatically moving in a corridor avoiding objects and other synthetic actors. To simulate this behavior, each synthetic actor uses a synthetic vision as its perception of the world and so as the unique input to its behavioral model. This model is based on the concept of Displacement Local Automata (DLA), which is similar to the concept of a script for natural language processing. A DLA is an algorithm that can deal with a specific environment. Two DLAs are described in detail called follow-the-corridor and avoidthe-obstacle.