Project Number
- 54
Title
- KA-O-RI
Description
- Realtime virtual actress demonstration with realistically expressive features.
Contact
- Ken Anjyo
Affiliation
- Hitachi, Ltd.
Address
- Systems Engineering Division
- 4-6 Kansa-Surugadai Chiyoda
- Tokyo 101
- Japan
- +81.3.3258.1111, x5565
- +81.3.3258.5811 fax
- 4-6 Kansa-Surugadai Chiyoda
- anjyo@hrl.hitachi.co.jp
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- KA-O-RI is a realtime virtual actress demonstration to explore the potential of interaction between realistic synthetic actors and real people.
- The model was created to be as realistic as possible (based upon photo texture maps of a real person). Using proprietary lip-synchronization software, the actress speaks procedurally based upon a real actress's voice. An additional operator can control performance features such as eye contact, head movement, or expressions via dial/button input to the controlling software.
- The trial was intended to further understand the potential of virtual actors in a future play or entertainment scenario.
Sight
- SGI Onyx, SGI Personal Iris, Hitachi and Fuji Television software
Sound
- human vocals
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Secondary
- 309 - entertainment
Remarks
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