IVA 2003: Intelligent Virtual Agents pp 202-206 | Cite as

Programmable Agent Perception in Intelligent Virtual Environments

  • Spyros Vosinakis
  • Themis Panayiotopoulos
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 2792)

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a perception model for virtual agents based on a two-layered architecture. Each agent is equipped with a sensing mechanism that retrieves the objects in its field of view and stores them in its memory, and with a perception module that applies a set of rules on them and generates its beliefs. We propose a scripting language for defining such perception rules using condition->assertion statements, and describe in detail an example of a perception case.

Keywords

Virtual Agent Perception Model Assertion Statement World Representation Agent Perception 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Spyros Vosinakis
    • 1
  • Themis Panayiotopoulos
    • 1
  1. 1.University of PiraeusPiraeusGreece

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