Browsing by Subject "computer animation"
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Evaluating the Effect of Emotion on Gender Recognition in Virtual Humans
(2013)In this paper, we investigate the ability of humans to determine the gender of conversing characters, based on facial and body cues for emotion. We used a corpus of simultaneously captured facial and body motions from four ... -
Exploring Parameters of Virtual Character Lighting Through Perceptual Evaluation and Psychophysical Modelling
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2021)This thesis explored the parameters of virtual character lighting and their connections to the perceived emotion and appeal of the character. Our main interest is to empirically evaluate various common practices of setting ... -
Machine Learning For Plausible Gesture Generation From Speech For Virtual Humans
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2021)The growing use of virtual humans in an array of applications such as games, human-computer interfaces, and virtual reality demands the design of appealing and engaging characters, while minimizing the cost and time of ...