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A Platform Independent Architecture for Virtual Characters and Avatars

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2005)

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We have developed a Platform Independent Architecture for Virtual Characters and Avatars (PIAVCA), a character animation system that aims to be independent of any underlying graphics framework and so be easily portable. PIAVCA supports body animation based on a skeletal representation and facial animation based on morph targets.

This work has been supported by BT plc and European Union FET project PRESENCIA, IST-2001-37927.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK

    M. Gillies, V. Vinayagamoorthy & A. Steed

  2. BT plc, Adastral Park, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    D. Robeterson

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Themis Panayiotopoulos

  2. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 13274 Fiji Way, 90292, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

    Jonathan Gratch

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  4. BT plc, Adastral Park, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  6. University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161, Augsburg, Germany

    Thomas Rist

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Gillies, M., Vinayagamoorthy, V., Robeterson, D., Steed, A. (2005). A Platform Independent Architecture for Virtual Characters and Avatars. In: Panayiotopoulos, T., Gratch, J., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P., Rist, T. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550617_44

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