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VRML
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Guiding visitors of Web3D worlds through automatically generated tours
Many Web3D sites do not offer sufficient assistance to (especially novice) users in navigating the virtual world, find objects/places of interests, and learn how to interact with ...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Lucio Ieronutti
AVBPA
2003
Springer
133views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
Visual Analysis of the Use of Mixture Covariance Matrices in Face Recognition
The quadratic discriminant (QD) classifier has proved to be simple and effective in many pattern recognition problems. However, it requires the computation of the inverse of the sa...
Carlos E. Thomaz, Duncan Fyfe Gillies
DIGRA
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Developing a hybrid of MMORPG and LARP using usability methods: the case of Takkar
This paper examines the idea of combining Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) and MMORPG into a hybrid game named Takkar. We developed three versions of Takkar in an iterative fashion...
Laust Juul Christensen, Thomas Tae-Yang Jør...
ECML
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Improving the AUC of Probabilistic Estimation Trees
Abstract. In this work we investigate several issues in order to improve the performance of probabilistic estimation trees (PETs). First, we derive a new probability smoothing that...
César Ferri, Peter A. Flach, José He...
GW
2003
Springer
100views Biometrics» more  GW 2003»
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Performance Gestures of Musicians: What Structural and Emotional Information Do They Convey?
Abstract. This paper analyzes how expressive gestures of a professional clarinetist contribute to the perception of structural and emotional information in musical performance. The...
Bradley W. Vines, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Carol Krum...