by Martina Haefeli | Aug 31, 2016 | Animation, Story Technology, Visual Computing
Walk the Talk: Coordinating Gesture with Locomotion for Concersational Characters In this paper, we consider the problem of creating rich and varied conversational behaviors for data-driven animation of walking and jogging characters. August 31, 2016Computer...
by Martina Haefeli | Aug 9, 2016 | Machine Learning
Estimation of Children’s Physical Characteristics from their Voices In this paper, using different formant-related measurements as exemplary analysis features generated within articulatory-phonetic guidelines, we demonstrate the nonlinear relationships of...
by Martina Haefeli | Aug 8, 2016 | Video Processing, Visual Computing
Interactive High-Quality Green-Screen Keying via Color Unmixing We present comprehensive comparisons with commercial software packages and relevant methods in literature, which show that the quality of our results is superior to any other currently available...
by Martina Haefeli | Jul 29, 2016 | Animation, Digital Humans, Rendering, Visual Computing
FrankenFolk: Distinctiveness and Attractiveness of Voice and Motion In this article, we conduct a series of experiments to evaluate the distinctiveness and attractiveness of human motions (face and body) and voices. July 29, 2016ACM Symposium on Applied Perception...
by Martina Haefeli | Jul 29, 2016 | Rendering, Visual Computing
User, Metric, and Computational Evaluation of Foveated Rendering Methods We consider three foveated rendering methods and propose practical rules of thumb for each method to achieve significant performance gains in real-time rendering frameworks. July 29, 2016ACM...