Augmented reality for real and virtual humans

Author

Balcisoy, Selim ; Torre, Rémy ; Ponder, Michal ; Fua, Pascal ; Thalmann, Daniel

Author_Institution

Comput. Graphics Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

307

Abstract

Current virtual reality technologies provide many ways to interact with virtual humans. Most of those techniques, however, are limited to synthetic elements and require cumbersome sensors. We have combined a real-time simulation and rendering platform with a real-time, non-invasive vision-based recognition system to investigate interactions in a mixed environment with real and synthetic elements. In this paper, we present the resulting system, the example of a checkers game between a real person and an autonomous virtual human to demonstrate its performance

Keywords

augmented reality; computer games; computer vision; digital simulation; image recognition; real-time systems; rendering (computer graphics); augmented reality; autonomous virtual humans; checkers game; draughts game; interaction; mixed environment; performance; real-time noninvasive vision-based recognition system; real-time simulation; rendering platform; sensors; virtual reality; Augmented reality; Calibration; Cameras; Computational modeling; Computer vision; Humans; Machine vision; Target tracking; Virtual environment; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics International, 2000. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0643-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CGI.2000.852346

Filename

852346