Real-time avatar animation steered by live body motion

Oliver Schreer, Ralf Tanger, Peter Eisert, Peter Kauff, Bernhard Kaspar, Roman Englert

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Abstract

The future customer service provided by call centres will be changed due to new web-based interactive multimedia technologies. Technical support will be offered in a completely new way by using advanced image processing technologies and natural representation of virtual humans. We present a prototype system of an animated avatar, which is steered by live body motion of the operator in a call centre. The hand and head motion is transferred directly to the avatar at the customer side in order to support a more natural representation of the virtual human. The system tracks the operators hands and the head motion quite robust in real-time without specific initialization based on a monocular camera.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2005, 13th International Conference, Proceedings
Pages147-154
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2005 - Cagliari, Italy
Duration: 6 Sep 20058 Sep 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3617 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2005
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityCagliari
Period6/09/058/09/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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