PhD defense : Pamela Carreno Medrano : Analysis and Synthesis of Expressive Theatrical Movements, 25th November, 2016.
This thesis addresses the analysis and generation of expressive movements for virtual human characters. Based on previous results from three different research areas (perception of emotions and biological motion, automatic recognition of affect and computer character animation), a low-dimensional motion representation is proposed. This representations consists of the spatio-temporal trajectories…