• DocumentCode
    2099105
  • Title

    The virtual human as a multimodal interface

  • Author

    Thalmann, Daniel

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Graphics Lab., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    15-23 June 2002
  • Abstract
    This paper discusses the main issues for creating interactive virtual environments with virtual humans emphasizing the following aspects: creation of virtual humans, gestures, interaction with objects, multimodal communication.
  • Keywords
    gesture recognition; human computer interaction; speech recognition; virtual reality; gestures; multimodal communication; multimodal interface; virtual human; Animation; Computer graphics; Humans; Joints; Shape; Skeleton; Skin; Speech; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Biomedical Imaging, 2002. 5th IEEE EMBS International Summer School on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7507-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SSBI.2002.1233992
  • Filename
    1233992