In this chapter, we provide a review of conversational agents (CAs), discussing chatbots,
intended for casual conversation with a user, as well as task-oriented agents that generally …

An end‐to‐end pipeline for the creation of high‐quality animatable volumetric video of
human performances is presented. Going beyond the application of free‐viewpoint video …

The blendshape approach is the predominant technique for creating high quality facial
animation. Facial expressions are generated by altering weight parameters manually for …

Creating facial animations using 3D computer graphics represents a very laborious and time-
consuming task. Among the numberless approaches for animating faces, the use of …

We propose a new model-based algorithm solving the inverse rig problem in facial
animation retargeting, exhibiting higher accuracy of the fit and sparser, more interpretable …

“Communication is an essential part of any design process.”(Clarkson and Eckert)[1]. The
rapid emergence and growth of 4D printing technology are expected to impact the …

Photo-realistic modeling and rendering of humans is extremely important for virtual reality
(VR) environments, as the human body and face are highly complex and exhibit large shape …

Realistic rendering and animation of human faces has been a goal within the computer
graphics community for a long time, pioneered by Parke et al. in 1972 [18] and followed by …