Simulating Autonomous Virtual Humans: Authoring and Evaluating Autonomous Virtual Human Simulations - Softcover

Kapadia, Mubbasir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3847349015 ISBN 13: 9783847349013

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Research in virtual human simulation has seen a dramatic rise in recent years with widespread applicability in games, visual effects, education and urban simulations. Going forward, the problems we face are three-fold: First, a unified framework for efficiently simulating functional, purposeful autonomous virtual humans is yet to be realized. Second, it is particularly challenging to evaluate massive simulations of autonomous agents. Third, there exists no appropriate interface to allow end-users to author complex interactions between autonomous actors that populate the simulated environment. This book addresses the aforementioned challenges and presents a general framework for authoring, animating and, evaluating autonomous virtual human simulations.

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About the Author

Mubbasir Kapadia is the assistant director and a postdoctoral researcher at the Human Modeling and Simulation Lab at University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include applying automated planning and machine learning to simulate autonomous virtual humans. Mubbasir has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3847349015
• ISBN 13: 9783847349013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156