2006 Events
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Speaker: Antonio Damasio
Host: USC ICT
On Wednesday December 20th, Antonio and Hanna Damasio will be visiting the ICT. Antonio Damasio will be giving a talk in the 6th floor amphitheater …
Andrew Jones, Andrew Gardner, Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall, Paul Debevec: “Simulating Spatially Varying Lighting on a Live Performance”
Speaker: Andrew Jones, Andrew Gardner, Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall, Paul Debevec
Host: 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2006)
We present an image-based technique for relighting dynamic human performances under spatially varying illumination. Our system generates a time-multiplexed LED basis and a geometric model …
Andrew Jones, Paul Debevec, Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall: “Concave Surround Optics for Rapid Multiview imaging”
Speaker: Andrew Jones, Paul Debevec, Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall
Host: 25th Army Science Conference
Many image-based modeling and rendering techniques involve photographing a scene from an array of different viewpoints. Usually, this is achieved by moving the camera or …
Sarah Tariq, Andrew Gardner, Ignacia Llamas, Andrew Jones, Paul Debevec, Greg Turk: “Efficient Estimation of Spatially Varying Subsurface Scattering Parameters”
Speaker: Sarah Tariq, Andrew Gardner, Ignacia Llamas, Andrew Jones, Paul Debevec, Greg Turk
Host: 11th International Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization
We present an image-based technique to efficiently acquire spatially varying subsurface reflectance properties of a human face. The estimated properties can be used directly to …
Nigel G. Ward: “Learning to Show You’re Listening: A Trainer for Back-Channeling in Arabic”
Speaker: Nigel G. Ward
Host: David Traum
Good listeners generally produce back-channel feedback, and do so in a language-appropriate way. Second language learners often lack this skill. We present a training sequence …
B. Chandrasekaran: “An Architecture for Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning”
Speaker: B. Chandrasekaran
An Architecture for Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning B. Chandrasekaran Laboratory for AI Research The Ohio State University Columbus, OH Though AI and cognitive science almost …
Peter Khooshabeh, Mary Hegarty: “Inferring cross-sections: when internal visualizations are more important than properties of external visualizations”
Speaker: Peter Khooshabeh, Mary Hegarty
Host: 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2006)
Three experiments examined how cognitive abilities and qualities of external visualizations affected performance of a mental visualization task; inferring the cross-section of a complex three-dimensional …
Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe, Stacy Marsella, Mattheiu Morales, Jan van der Werf, Louis-Philippe Morency: “Virtual Rapport”
Speaker: Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe, Stacy Marsella, Mattheiu Morales, Jan van der Werf, Louis-Philippe Morency
Host: 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 06)
Effective face-to-face conversations are highly interactive. Participants respond to each other, engaging in nonconscious behavioral mimicry and backchanneling feedback. Such behaviors produce a subjective sense …
Stacy Marsella, Sharon Carnicke, Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Skip Rizzo: “An exploration of Delsarte’s structural acting system”
Speaker: Stacy Marsella, Sharon Carnicke, Jonathan Gratch, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Skip Rizzo
Host: 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 06)
The designers of virtual agents often draw on a large research literature in psychology, linguistics and human ethology to design embodied agents that can interact …
Kevin Gluck, Glenn Gunzelmann, Jonathan Gratch, Eva Hudlicka, Frank Ritter: “Modeling the Impact of Cognitive Moderators on Human Cognition and Performance”
Speaker: Kevin Gluck, Glenn Gunzelmann, Jonathan Gratch, Eva Hudlicka, Frank Ritter
Host: 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2006)
Cognitive moderators, such as emotions, personality, stress, and fatigue, represent an emerging area of research within the cognitive science community and are increasingly acknowledged as …
Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, Wenji Mao: “Towards a Validated Model of ‘Emotional Intelligence'”
Speaker: Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, Wenji Mao
Host: AAAI Twenty-First Conference on Artificial Intelligence
This article summarizes recent progress in developing a validated computational account of the cognitive antecedents and consequences of emotion. We describe the potential of this …
Per Einarsson, Charles-Felix Chabert, Andrew Jones, Wan-Chun Ma, Bruce Lamond, Tim Hawkins, Mark Bolas, Sebastian Sylwan, Paul Debevec: “Relighting Human Locomotion with Flowed Reflectance Fields”
Speaker: Per Einarsson, Charles-Felix Chabert, Andrew Jones, Wan-Chun Ma, Bruce Lamond, Tim Hawkins, Mark Bolas, Sebastian Sylwan, Paul Debevec
Host: 17th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
We present an image-based approach for capturing the appearance of a walking or running person so they can be rendered realistically under variable viewpoint and …
Vadim Bulitko: “Real-time Learning and Search in Game-like Environments”
Speaker: Vadim Bulutko
Host: Michael van Lent
The pursuit of moving targets in real-time environments such as computer games and robotics presents several challenges to situated agents. A priori unknown state spaces …
Wenji Mao, Jonathan Gratch: “Evaluating a Computational Model of Social Causality and Responsibility”
Speaker: Wenji Mao, Jonathan Gratch
Host: 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 06)
Intelligent agents are typically situated in a social environment and must reason about social cause and effect. Such reasoning is qualitatively different from physical causal …
James Fan: “Interpreting Loosely Encoded Knowledge”
Speaker: James Fan
Host: Jonathan Gratch
Knowledge based systems are capable of answering questions that have elaborate contexts and require deep reasonings. Unlike information retrieval based question answering, knowledge based systems …
Fusun Yaman: “Reasoning about Temporal Plans and Plans for Moving Objects”
Speaker: Fusun Yaman
Host: Jonathan Gratch
Temporal plans play an important role in many real world applications. In this talk I will present my work on generating temporal plans and reasoning …
Stacy Marsella, Jonathan Gratch: “EMA: a computational model of appraisal dynamics”
Speaker: Stacy Marsella, Jonathan Gratch
Host: 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
A computational model of emotion must explain both the rapid dynamics of some emotional reactions as well as the slower responses that follow deliberation. This …
Jeremy Bailenson: “Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality”
Speaker: Jeremy Bailenson
Host: Jonathan Gratch
Over time, our mode of remote communication has evolved from written letters to telephones, email, internet chat rooms, and videoconferences. Similarly, collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) …
Louis-Philippe Morency: “Contextual Recognition of Head Gestures”
Speaker: Louis-Philippe Morency
Head pose and gesture offer several key conversational grounding cues and are used extensively inface-to-face interaction among people. In this talk, we investigate how dialog …
Erik T. Mueller: “Commonsense Reasoning and the Event Calculus”
Speaker: Erik T. Mueller
Host: Andrew Gordon
Commonsense reasoning is fundamental to high-level cognition. The event calculus, which is based on first-order logic, is an effective method for commonsense reasoning. It supports …
Doug Lenat: “Creativity vs. Common Sense”
Speaker: Doug Lenat
Host: Lori Weiss
The pursuit of Artificial Intelligence—from robotics to natural language processing to automated learning—has been held back by the “brittleness bottleneck” caused by the need for …