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Hand Contact between Remote Users through Virtual Avatars

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CASA '16: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2915926.2915947

Published: 23 May 2016 Publication History

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We present an avatar animation technique for a telepresence system that allows for the hand contact, especially handshaking, between remote users. The key idea is that, while the avatar follows the remote user's motion normally, it modifies the motion to create and maintain hand contact with the local user when the two users try to engage hand contact. To this end, we develop the support vector machine (SVM)-based classifiers to recognize the users' intention for contact interaction, and online motion generation method to create realistic image sequence of an avatar to realize the continuous contact with the user. A user study has been conducted to verify the effect of our method on the social telepresence.

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CASA '16: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents

May 2016

200 pages

ISBN:9781450347457

DOI:10.1145/2915926

Conference Chairs:
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
MIRALab, University of Geneva and NTU Singapore
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Marina L. Gavrilova
University of Calgary, Canada
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Program Chairs:
Taku Komura
Edingburgh University, UK
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Frederic Cordier
University of Haute-Alsace, France
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Daniel Thalmann
NTU, Singapore & EPFL, Switzerland

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CASA '16: Computer Animation and Social Agents

May 23 - 25, 2016

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