A MPEG-4 virtual human animation engine for interactive web based applications

Author

Gutiérrez, Mario ; Vexo, Frédéric ; Thalmann, Daniel

Author_Institution

Virtual Reality Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

554

Lastpage

559

Abstract

This paper presents a novel, MPEG-4 compliant animation engine (body player). It has been designed to synthesize virtual human full-body animations in interactive multimedia applications for the web. We believe that a full-body player can provide a more expressive and interesting interface than the use of animated faces only (talking heads). This is one of the first implementations of a MPEG-4 animation engine with deformable models (it uses the MPEG-4 Body Definition Parameters and Deformation Tables). Several potential applications are overviewed. This software tool was developed in the framework of the IST-INTERFACE European project.

Keywords

computer animation; multimedia computing; virtual reality; 3D virtual humans; MPEG-4 player; animation engine; body player; full-body animation; human animation engine; human-computer interaction; interactive multimedia; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computer interfaces; Engines; Face; Facial animation; Humans; MPEG 4 Standard; Magnetic heads; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2002. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7545-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045680

Filename

1045680