Body movements for affective expression: A survey of automatic recognition and generation

M Karg, AA Samadani, R Gorbet… - IEEE Transactions …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Body movements communicate affective expressions and, in recent years, computational
models have been developed to recognize affective expressions from body movements or to …

Emotional storytelling using virtual and robotic agents

S Costa, A Brunete, BC Bae… - International Journal of …, 2018‏ - World Scientific
In order to create effective storytelling agents three fundamental questions must be
answered: first, is a physically embodied agent preferable to a virtual agent or a voice-only …

Machine learning for data-driven movement generation: a review of the state of the art

O Alemi, P Pasquier - arxiv preprint arxiv:1903.08356, 2019‏ - arxiv.org
The rise of non-linear and interactive media such as video games has increased the need
for automatic movement animation generation. In this survey, we review and analyze …

Data-driven finger motion synthesis for gesturing characters

S Jörg, J Hodgins, A Safonova - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2012‏ - dl.acm.org
Capturing the body movements of actors to create animations for movies, games, and VR
applications has become standard practice, but finger motions are usually added manually …

Assessing the impact of hand motion on virtual character personality

Y Wang, JEF Tree, M Walker, M Neff - ACM Transactions on Applied …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
Designing virtual characters that are capable of conveying a sense of personality is
important for generating realistic experiences, and thus a key goal in computer animation …

Real-time performance-driven finger motion synthesis

C Mousas, CN Anagnostopoulos - Computers & Graphics, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents a method to estimate and synthesize the motion of a character's fingers
in real-time during the performance capture process. For the motion estimation and …

Perception and generation of affective hand movements

AA Samadani, E Kubica, R Gorbet, D Kulić - International Journal of Social …, 2013‏ - Springer
Perception and generation of affective movements are essential for achieving the
expressivity required for a fully engaging human-machine interaction. This paper develops a …

Affective movement recognition based on generative and discriminative stochastic dynamic models

AA Samadani, R Gorbet, D Kulić - IEEE Transactions on Human …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For an engaging human-machine interaction, machines need to be equipped with affective
communication abilities. Such abilities enable interactive machines to recognize the …

Discriminative functional analysis of human movements

AA Samadani, A Ghodsi, D Kulić - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2013‏ - Elsevier
This paper investigates the use of statistical dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques for
discriminative low dimensional embedding to enable affective movement recognition …

[HTML][HTML] Methods of generating emotional movements and methods of transmitting behavioral intentions: A perspective on human-coexistence robots

T Matsumaru - Sensors, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the following two functions that are
considered to be important in human-coexistence robots and human-symbiotic robots: the …