Techniques are disclosed for performing avatar-based video encoding. In some
embodiments, a video recording of an individual may be encoded utilizing an avatar that is …

Life-like characters is one of the most exciting technologies for human-computer interface
applications today. They convincingly take the roles of virtual presenters, synthetic actors …

This work presents an integral system capable of generating animations with realistic
dynamics, including the individualized nuances, of three-dimensional (3-D) human faces …

Emotion is a research area that has received much attention during the last 10 years, both in
the context of speech synthesis, image understanding as well as in automatic speech …

In this paper we describe a way to enhance human computer interaction using facial
Electromyographic (EMG) sensors. Indeed, to know the emotional state of the user enables …

The virtual human interface: A photorealistic digital human Page 1 To mimic the quality of
everyday human communication, future computer inter- faces must combine the benefits of …

The present work reports the results of perceptual experiments aimed to investigate if some
of the basic emotions are perceptually privileged and if the cultural environment and the …

People consider other people who resemble them to be more persuasive. Users may
consider embodied conversational agents, or ECAs, to be more persuasive if the agents …

In the present work a cross-modal evaluation of the visual and auditory channels in
conveying emotional information is conducted through perceptual experiments aimed at …

Galatea is a software toolkit to develop a human-like spoken dialog agent. In order to easily
integrate the modules of different characteristics including speech recognizer, speech …