This paper addresses the problem of estimating the shape of an actor in a multi-camera studio for arbitrarily positioned cameras and arbitrary human pose. We adopt a seamless arti...
Loop Calculus, introduced by Chertkov and Chernyak, is a new technique to incrementally improve approximations computed by Loopy Belief Propagation (LBP), with the ability to even...
Natural Language Generation for personality rich characters represents one of the important directions for believable agents research. The typical approach to interactive NLG is t...
Christina R. Strong, Manish Mehta, Kinshuk Mishra,...
High dimensionality of belief space in DEC-POMDPs is one of the major causes that makes the optimal joint policy computation intractable. The belief state for a given agent is a p...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like computer generated characters that interact with human users in face-to-face multi-modal conversations. ECA systems are general...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Toyoaki Nishida, Aleksandra Cere...