Project Number
- 280
Title
- VaRionettes
Description
- Interactive avatar-driven installation with gesture-recognition interface.
Contact
- Jakub Segen
Affiliation
- Lucent Bell Laboratories
Address
- 101 Crawfords Corner Road
- Room 4E-632
- Holmdel, New Jersey 07733-3032
- Room 4E-632
- segen@lucent.com
WWW
Year
- 2000
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "VaRionettes is an interactive installation that demonstrates simple and natural control of complex actions and gestural expressions of a virtual actor (an avatar) using a vision-based interface."
- "Users control a virtual actor directly with their hands, without the use of markers, gloves, sensors, or wires. Images of users' hands are captured by a pair of video cameras and processed to recognize gestures and extract 3D pose and motion parameters."
- "[Extracted] visual information is translated into commands and parameters that control the avatar's posture, actions, and behaviors. The avatar's responses are instantaneous and precise, due to the speed and accuracy of the Bell Labs Gesture Recognition technology."
Sight
- graphics workstation, video cameras, visual tracking system
Sound
Touch
- visual tracking system
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 206 - avatar / agent
Secondary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, Copyright © 2002 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Contact us: etech-map@siggraph.org