A person's emotions and state of mind are apparent in their face and eyes. As a Latin proverb states:'The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers'. This presents a …
Humans perform gaze shifts naturally through a combination of eye, head and body movements. Although gaze has been long studied as input modality for interaction, this has …
I Wang, J Ruiz - International Journal of Human–Computer …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them to take on a …
A person's emotions and state of mind are apparent in their face and eyes. As a Latin proverb states:" The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers.". This presents a …
We present S 3, a novel approach to generating expressive, animator-centric 3D head and eye animation of characters in conversation. Given speech audio, a Directorial script and a …
To facilitate natural interactions between humans and embodied conversational agents (ECAs), we need to endow the latter with the same nonverbal cues that humans use to …
In conversation, people avert their gaze from one another to achieve a number of conversational functions, including turn-taking, regulating intimacy, and indicating that …
Extended reality (XR) technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), provide users, their avatars, and embodied agents a shared platform to collaborate in a …
A Klein, Z Yumak, A Beij… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We present a data-driven gaze animation method using recurrent neural networks. The neural network is trained with motion capture data including different poses such as …