The importance of interpersonal and group communication has been studied and recognized for thousands of years. With recent technological advances, humans have enabled remote interaction through shared virtual spaces; however, research is still needed to develop methods for expressing many important non-verbal communication cues. Our work explores the methods for enhancing the communication spectrum in collaborative virtual environments. Our primary contribution is a machine learning framework that maps human facial data to avatars in the virtual world. We developed a synthetic training process to create labeled data to alleviate the burden of manual annotation. Additionally, we describe a collaborative virtual environment that can utilize both verbal and non-verbal cues for improved user communication and interaction. Finally, we present results demonstrating the success of our method in a sample collaborative scenario.
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Kim, E., & Moritz, C. (2016). Enhancing the communication spectrum in collaborative virtual environments. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10072 LNCS, pp. 681–690). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50835-1_61
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