The successful development of autonomous robotic systems requires careful fusion of complex subsystems for perception, planning, and control. Often these subsystems are designed in a modular fashion and tested individually. However, when ultimately combined with other components to form a complete system, unexpected interactions between subsystems can occur that make it difficult to isolate the...

Accurate motion capture plays an important role in sports analysis, the medical field and virtual reality. Current methods for motion capture often suffer from occlusions, which limits the accuracy of their pose estimation. In this paper, we propose a complete system to measure the pose parameters of the human body accurately. Different from previous monocular depth camera systems, we leverage ...

Over the last years, there has been a lot of interest in the area of Interactive Virtual Humans (IVHs). Virtual characters who interact naturally with users in mixed realities have many different applications, such as interactive video games, virtual training and rehabilitation, or virtual heritage. The main purpose of using interactive virtual humans in such applications is to increase the rea...

Human interfaces for computer graphics systems are now evolving towards a total multi-modal approach. Information gathered using visual, audio and motion capture systems are now becoming increasingly important within user-controlled virtual environments. This paper discusses real-time interaction through the visual analysis of human face feature. The underlying approach to recognize and analyze...

For some years, we have been able to integrate virtual humans into virtual environments. As the demand for Augmented Reality systems grows, so will the need for these synthetic humans to coexist and interact with humans who live in the real world. In this paper, we use the example of a checkers game between a real and a virtual human to demonstrate the integration of techniques required to achi...