Research Workshop: Virtual Human Toolkit
Dr. Jonathan Gratch
ICT
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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Location: ICT
Host: ICT
The Institute for Creative Technologies is organizing a small, invitation-only “Virtual Human School”, intended for graduate students, junior researchers and Army personnel. It is designed to provide a broad overview of relevant theories and practical tools needed to construct graphically-embodied conversational agents.
The workshop will consist of a set of lectures by leading researchers at the University of Southern California on speech and gesture recognition, dialogue management, emotional modeling and multi-modal behavior generation. It will also provide hands-on experience with a virtual human toolkit consisting of a variety of currently available tools for the construction of virtual interactive characters.
Subjects that will be covered include automated speech recognition, natural language understanding, verbal and non-verbal behavior, procedural animation and gestures, cognitive modeling, ontologies, data management, and large system integration.