We present the iFACE system, a visual speech synthesizer that provides a form of virtual face-to-face communication. The system provides an interactive tool for the user to customize a graphic head model for the virtual agent of a person based on his/her range data. The texture is mapped onto the customized model to achieve a realistic appearance. Face animations are produced by using text stre...

Understanding why the original project of Artificial Intelligence is widely regarded as a failure and has been abandoned even by most of contemporary AI research itself may prove crucial to achieving synthetic intelligence. Here, we take a brief look at some principles that we might consider to be lessons from the past five decades of AI. The author’s own AI architecture – MicroPsi – attempts t...

Our group focuses on synthesising biologically active compounds for the various stages of drug development. Several of our projects are devoted to the development of basic synthetic methodology, with a special emphasis on asymmetric synthesis, while others address the synthesis of compounds of known therapeutic interest, in which emphasis is placed on the reliability, efficiency and scalability...

Some new relations in the family of edge ideal metrics for biopolymers are proved. Also, some statistical relations among the metrics are shown using a big synthetic contact structure set; for unary contact structures, the relations are linear with a high significance.

The article describes the learning process of children, and the associated difficulties in the transfer from everyday thinking to scientific. Everyday explanations (direct descriptions of phenomena, fragments heard from adults, analogy-based explanations) are prevalent in preschool children. In school, children begin to learn scientific (non-experiential) knowledge and develop the scientific le...

This paper discusses the requirements of planning for believable synthetic characters and examines the relationship between appraisal and planning as components of an affective agent architecture. It discusses an implementation in the synthetic characters of the FearNot! anti-bullying education demonstrator and how far this provides an adequate mechanism for believable behaviour.

This paper introduces the Storyteller, a synthetic character that tells stories. Our goal is to obtain an expressive and believable embodied agent that can resemble a real human storyteller. The several aspects concerning the conception of the character, as well as some preliminary results, are presented in this document.

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The identification of basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise) has been studied widely from pictures of facial expressions. Until recently, the role of dynamic information in identifying facial emotions has received little attention. There is evidence that dynamics improves the identification of basic emotions from synthetic (computer-animated) facial expressions [...

People are special. The importance and need for the research and development into medical and healthcare devices can never be overstated. In the 21st century, medical and healthcare devices play a more vital role in our lives than ever before. A wide range of materials are being used for producing numerous medical and healthcare devices for a variety of end use. In this manuscript, historical d...