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Integrate and conquer: the next generation of intelligent avatars

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Jaroslaw Francik,

Adam SzarowiczAuthors Info & Claims

ACE '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology

Pages 413 - 420

https://doi.org/10.1145/1178477.1178571

Published: 15 June 2005 Publication History

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FreeWill+ is a framework that aims at integrating various animation techniques for controlling human-like characters. With heterogeneity and multi-layering as its main design principles, the system contains a society of complex interrelated animation components (actions), executing on various levels of abstraction and also varying in the level of built-in intelligence. They arrange themselves into ad-hoc created associations to perform tasks and fulfil goals. As both reactive and proactive modes of operation are present, and the communication between actions is crucial, the overall structure may be considered as a multiagent system. We will show how a relatively simple, multi-layered and multi-agent structure can cope with collision-free motion planning problem.

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Grudzinski T(2008)Exploiting Quaternion PCA in Virtual Character Motion AnalysisProceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics: Revised Papers10.1007/978-3-642-02345-3_41(420-429)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-02345-3_41

Index Terms

Integrate and conquer: the next generation of intelligent avatars
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents
      2. Multi-agent systems
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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Grudzinski T(2008)Exploiting Quaternion PCA in Virtual Character Motion AnalysisProceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics: Revised Papers10.1007/978-3-642-02345-3_41(420-429)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-02345-3_41

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