Physics simulation offers the possibility of truly responsive and realistic animation. Despite
wide adoption of physics simulation for the animation of passive phenomena, such as fluids …

In this paper we review the works related to muscle synergies that have been carried-out in
neuroscience and control engineering. In particular, we refer to the hypothesis that the …

We describe a new method for representing human movement compactly, in terms of a
linear super-imposition of simpler movements termed primitives. This method is a part of a …

Controllable, reactive human motion is essential in many video games and training
environments. Characters in these applications often perform tasks based on modified …

Conversational agents are supposed to combine speech with non‐verbal modalities for
intelligible multimodal utterances. In this paper, we focus on the generation of gesture and …

We review methods for kinematic tracking of the human body in video. The review is part of a
projected book that is intended to cross-fertilize ideas about motion representation between …

We describe the design of a modular system for untethered real-time kinematic motion
capture using sensors with inertial measuring units (IMU). Our system is comprised of a set …

Getting humanoids to move and imitate Page 1 HUMANOIDROBOTICS Getting Humanoids to
Move and Imitate Maja J. Mataric′, University of Southern California AS ROBOTS …

15.1 Introduction Imitation is a powerful means of skill acquisition, social interaction, and
cultural transfer. Although popular notions of ''monkeying''and ''parroting''make the …

Virtual humans are employed in many interactive applications using 3D virtual
environments, including (serious) games. The motion of such virtual humans should look …