Transactions on Edutainment VI

by Pan, Zhigeng; Cheok, Adrian David; Muller, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9783642226380
• ISBN10: 3642226388
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-17
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields. It covers aspects from educational and game theories, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and systems design. The 6th volume in this series represents a selection of 7 contributions from DMDCM 2011, the 5th International Conference on Digital Media and Digital Content Management, held in Chongqing, China, in December 2011, as well as 18 contributions from CASA 2011, the 24th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, held in Chengdu, China, in May 2011.The topics covered are: pen-based interface, urban heat island simulation, BR-based on-line expo, physically-based tree animation, 3D face texture stitching, chessboard corner extraction, textured-based tracking, motion control, motion capture and retargeting, path planning, physics based animation, image based animation, behavioral animation, artificial life, deformation, facial animation, multi-resolution and multi-scale models, knowledge-based animation, motion synthesis; social agents and avatars, emotion and personality, virtual humans, autonomous actors, AI based animation, social and conversational agents, inter-agent communication, social behavior, gesture generation, crowd simulation; animation compression and transmission, semantics and ontologies for virtual humans and virtual environments, animation analysis and structuring, anthropometric virtual human models, acquisition and reconstruction of animation data, level of details, semantic representation of motion and animation, medical simulation, cultural heritage, interaction for virtual humans, augmented reality and virtual reality, computer games and online virtual worlds.

Table of Contents

Digital Media and Digital Content Management (Papers from DMDCM 2010)
Prediction and Visualization for Urban Heat Island Simulation	p. 1
Architecture Design and Avatar Customization of On-line Expo	p. 12
3D Face Texture Stitching Based on Differential Coordinates	p. 20
Physically-Based Tree Animation and Leaf Deformation Using CUDA in Real-Time	p. 27
Simulation of Implosion and Transportation of Ore in Digital Mine	p. 40
An Automatic and Robust Chessboard Corner Extraction	p. 49
An Adaptive Gradient Enhanced Texture Based Tracking Algorithm for Video Monitoring Applications	p. 57
Computer Animation and Social Agents (Papers from CASA 2011)
A Novel Method for Large Crowd Flow	p. 67
Evoking Panic in Crowd Simulation	p. 79
A Behavior Model Based on Information Transmission for Crowd Simulation	p. 89
Pattern Based Motion for Crowd Simulation	p. 99
Adding Physical Like Reaction Effects to Skeleton-Based Animations Using Controllable Pendulums	p. 111
Movement Classes from Human Motion Data	p. 122
Front View vs. Side View of Facial and Postural Expressions of Emotions in a Virtual Character	p. 132
Evaluating Emotional Content of Acted and Algorithmically Modified Motions	p. 144
An Emotion Model for Virtual Agents with Evolvable Motivation	p. 154
Sketch-Based Skeleton-Driven 2D Animation and Motion Capture	p. 164
A Multi-layer Model for Face Aging Simulation	p. 182
Particle-Based Fracture Simulation on the GPU	p. 193
Mining Subsidence Prediction Based on 3D Stratigraphic Model and Visualization	p. 206
Detail-Preserving Rendering of Free Surface Fluid with Lattice Boltzmann	p. 216
A Human Action Recognition Algorithm Based on Semi-supervised Kmeans Clustering	p. 227
A New Region Growing Algorithm for Triangular Mesh Recovery from Scattered 3D Points	p. 237
Detecting Moving Targets from Traffic Video Based on the Dynamic Background Model	p. 247
Real-Time Implementation for Weighted-Least-Squares-Based Edge-Preserving Decomposition and Its Applications	p. 256
Author Index	p. 265
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