Handbook of Virtual Humans

List of Contributors.

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

1. An Overview of Virtual Humans (Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann).

2. Face Cloning and Face Motion Capture (Wonsook Lee, Taro Goto, Sumedha Kshirsagar, Tom Molet).

3. Body Cloning and Body Motion Capture (Pascal Fua, Ralf Plaenkers, WonSook Lee, Tom Molet).

4. Anthropometric Body Modeling (Hyewon Seo).

5. Body Motion Control (Ronan Boulic, Paolo Baerlocher).

6. Facial Deformation Models (Prem Kalra, Stephane Garchery, Sumedha Kshirsagar).

7. Body Deformations (Amaury Aubel).

8. Hair Simulation (Sunil Hadap).

9. Cloth Simulation (Pascal Volino, Frédéric Cordier).

10. Expressive Speech Animation and Facial Communication (Sumedha Kshirsagar, Arjan Egges, Stéphane Garchery).

11. Behavioral Animation (Jean-Sébastien Monzani, Anthony Guye-Vuilleme, Etienne de Sevin).

12. Body Gesture Recognition and Action Response (Luc Emering, Bruno Herbelin).

13. Interaction with 3-D Objects (Marcello Kallmann).

14. Groups and Crowd Simulation (Soraia Raupp Musse, Branislav Ulicny, Amaury Aubel).

15. Rendering of Skin and Clothes (Neeharika Adabala).

16. Standards for Virtual Humans (Stéphane Garchery, Ronan Boulic, Tolga Capin, Prem Kalra).

Appendix A: Damped Least Square Pseudo-Inverse J+^A.

Appendix B: H-Anim Joint and Segment Topology.

Appendix C: Facial Animation Parameter Set .

References.

Index.