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The BML Sequencer: A Tool for Authoring Multi-character Animations

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The BML sequencer is a tool to allow artists to create SmartBody compliant BML [4] animation sequences for multiple virtual humans. SmartBody [3] allows for complex behavior realization, synchronizing speech recordings with non-verbal behaviors by using the Behavior Markup Language (BML) [4]. However, there remain two problems for using BML and smartbody to achieve the vision that an artist has for animating the character: the authoring problem and multi-party behavior syncronization. The BML Sequencer addresses both.

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  1. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 12015 Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, CA, 90094-2536, USA

    Priti Aggarwal & David Traum

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  1. School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

  2. Bielefeld University, CITEC, P.O. Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  3. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 12015 Waterfront Drive, 90094-2536, Playa Vista, CA, USA

    Stacy Marsella

  4. Reykjavik University, CADIA, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Kristinn R. Thórisson

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Aggarwal, P., Traum, D. (2011). The BML Sequencer: A Tool for Authoring Multi-character Animations. In: Vilhjálmsson, H.H., Kopp, S., Marsella, S., Thórisson, K.R. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_47

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