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The last few years have seen great maturation in the computation speed and control methods needed to portray 3D virtual humans suitable for real interactive applications. Various dimensions of real-time virtual humans are considered, such as appearance and movement, autonomous action, and skills such as gesture, attention, and locomotion. A virtual human architecture includes low-level motor skills, mid-level PaT-Net parallel finite state machine controller, and a high-level conceptual action representation that can be used to drive virtual humans through complex tasks. This structure offers a deep connection between natural language instructions and animation control.
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Badler, N.I., Bindiganavale, R., Bourne, J., Allbeck, J., Shi, J., Palmer, M. (2000). Real-Time Virtual Humans. In: Vince, J.A., Earnshaw, R. (eds) Digital Media: The Future. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3646-0_16
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