CAROUSEL+ Telepresent Dance Reducing Social Distancing

DanceGraph: A Complementary Architecture for Synchronous Dancing Online (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sinclair, D., Ademola, A. V., Koniaris, B., & Mitchell, K. (2023, May). DanceGraph: A Complementary Architecture for Synchronous Dancing Online. Presented at 36th International Computer Animation & Social Agents (CASA) 2023, Limassol, Cyprus

DanceGraph is an architecture for synchronized online dancing overcoming the latency of net-worked body pose sharing. We break down this challenge by developing a real-time bandwidth-efficient architecture to minimize lag and reduce the timeframe of... Read More about DanceGraph: A Complementary Architecture for Synchronous Dancing Online.

Real-time Facial Animation for 3D Stylized Character with Emotion Dynamics (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pan, Y., Zhang, R., Wang, J., Ding, Y., & Mitchell, K. (2023, October). Real-time Facial Animation for 3D Stylized Character with Emotion Dynamics. Presented at 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Ottawa, Canada

Our aim is to improve animation production techniques' efficiency and effectiveness. We present two real-time solutions which drive character expressions in a geometrically consistent and perceptually valid way. Our first solution combines keyframe a... Read More about Real-time Facial Animation for 3D Stylized Character with Emotion Dynamics.

Intermediated Reality with an AI 3D Printed Character (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Casas, L., & Mitchell, K. (2023, August). Intermediated Reality with an AI 3D Printed Character. Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Real-Time Live!, Los Angeles, CA, USA

We introduce live character conversational interactions in Intermediated Reality to bring real-world objects to life in Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The AI recognizes live speech and generates short character responses, sy... Read More about Intermediated Reality with an AI 3D Printed Character.

Editorial: Games May Host the First Rightful AI Citizens (2023)
Journal Article
Mitchell, K. (2023). Editorial: Games May Host the First Rightful AI Citizens. Games: Research and Practice, 1(2), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3606834

GAMES creatively take place in imaginative worlds informed by, but often not limited by, real-world challenges, and this advantageously provides an accelerated environment for innovation, where concepts and ideas can be explored unencumbered by physi... Read More about Editorial: Games May Host the First Rightful AI Citizens.

Emotional Voice Puppetry (2023)
Journal Article
Pan, Y., Zhang, R., Cheng, S., Tan, S., Ding, Y., Mitchell, K., & Yang, X. (2023). Emotional Voice Puppetry. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(5), 2527-2535. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2023.3247101

The paper presents emotional voice puppetry, an audio-based facial animation approach to portray characters with vivid emotional changes. The lips motion and the surrounding facial areas are controlled by the contents of the audio, and the facial dyn... Read More about Emotional Voice Puppetry.