G. Riva, F. Vatalaro, F. Davide, M. Alcañiz (eds, Stefano Piva, Carlo Bonamico, ...
Abstract. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems aim at augmenting real environments to create Smart Spaces where users are provided with pervasive virtual services. In order to allow users to seamlessly...
An Encoding/Packetization Solution for MPEG-4 Facial Animations Delivery over RTP (2007)
Maria Fresia, Carlo Bonamico, Fabio Lavagetto, Roberto Pockaj
The number of web-based applications exploiting three-dimensional, animated virtual characters has significantly increased in the recent past. However, the HTTP/TCP protocols used for animation...
The Anty’s Postcards Virtual Character-Based Website: a Case Study (2007)
The INTERFACE project aims at improving user interaction with web-based applications by using computer-animated characters to implement virtual guides, avatars, or teachers. The tools developed...
INTERPOLATING MPEG-4 FAPs FOR VERY LOW BITRATE FACIAL ANIMATION (2007)
Roberto Pockaj, Fabio Lavagetto, Maurizio Costa, Carlo Bonamico
In this paper we propose an efficient algorithm for exploiting the Facial Animation Parameter interpolation modality specified by the MPEG-4 standard in order to allow very low bitrate trasmission of...
JAVA BASED TALKING FACES FOR ADVANCED WEB USER INTERFACES ABSTRACT (2007)
Carlo Bonamico, Roberto Pockaj
Parameter-based facial animation is now a mature technology, and has also been included in the MPEG4 standard. To make this technology available on the Web, the authors have developed a Java port of...