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This paper explains methods to provide autonomous virtual humans with the skills necessary to perform stand-alone role in films, games and interactive television. We present current research developments in the Virtual Life of autonomous synthetic actors. After a brief description of our geometric, physical, and auditory Virtual Environments, we introduce the perception action principles with a few simple examples. We emphasize the concept of virtual sensors for virtual humans. In particular, we describe our experiences in implementing virtual sensors such as vision sensors, tactile sensors, and hearing sensors. We then describe knowledge-based navigation, knowledge-based locomotion and in more details sensor-based tennis.
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Thalmann, D., Noser, H. (1999). Towards Autonomous, Perceptive, and Intelligent Virtual Actors. In: Wooldridge, M.J., Veloso, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Today. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1600. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48317-9_19
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