Motion in Games: First International Workshop, MIG 2008, Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 14-17, 2008, Revised Papers

ISBN-13: 9783540892199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 257 str.

Arjan Egges

Opis

FromJune14-17,2008, theCenterforAdvancedGamingandSimulation(AGS), UtrechtUniversity, incollaborationwiththeNLGDFestivalofGames, organized a Workshop on Motion in Games in Utrecht. Motion plays a crucial role in c- puter games. Characters move around, objects are manipulated or move due to physical constraints, entities are animated, and the camera moves through the scene. Even the motion of the player nowadays is used as input to games. - tion is currently studied in many di?erent areas of research, including graphics and animation, gametechnology, robotics, simulation, computer vision, and also physics, psychology, and urban studies. The goal of the Motion in Games wo- shop was to bring together researchers from this variety of ?elds to present the most recent results and to initiate collaboration. TheMIG 2008workshophostedover30internationallyrenownedresearchers who all presentedtheir ongoingworkon topicssuch ascrowdsimulation, motion capture, path planning and facial animation. This volume is a collection of the paperspresentedduringthe workshop.Since this volumewaspublishedafterthe workshop, the authors of the papers adapted their content in order to include anydiscussionsthattookplaceduringtheworkshopitself.All?nalcontributions were carefully checked by the workshop organizers. The Motion in Games workshop was a very successful event that has set the starting point for interdisciplinary collaborations and for novel research ideas following the interesting discussions that took place. We are very happy with the outcomeofthe workshopandthe excellentcontributionsby the participants, collected in this volume. August 2008 Arjan Egges Arno Kamphuis Mark Overmars SponsoringInstitutions This workshop was sponsored by the GATE 1 2 project and the NLGD Festival of Games .

Spis treści

Crowd Simulation.- Texture Synthesis Based Simulation of Secondary Agents.- Using the Corridor Map Method for Path Planning for a Large Number of Characters.- Real-Time Path Planning and Navigation for Multi-agent and Crowd Simulations.- Populate Your Game Scene.- Hierarchical Path Planning for Virtual Crowds.- Virtual Humans.- Towards Embodied and Situated Virtual Humans.- Adaptive Body, Motion and Cloth.- From Motion Capture to Real-Time Character Animation.- Motion Synthesis.- More Motion Capture in Games — Can We Make Example-Based Approaches Scale?.- Simulating Interactions of Characters.- Motion Prediction for Online Gaming.- Two-Character Motion Control: Challenge and Promise.- Motion Modeling: Can We Get Rid of Motion Capture?.- Informed Use of Motion Synthesis Methods.- Automatic Estimation of Skeletal Motion from Optical Motion Capture Data.- Interfaces.- An Immersive Motion Interface with Edutainment Contents for Elderly People.- Design of Experience and Flow in Movement-Based Interaction.- Navigation and Steering.- Relaxed Steering towards Oriented Region Goals.- Opening Doors in Motion Analysis Research.- Watch Out! A Framework for Evaluating Steering Behaviors.- Whole-Body Locomotion, Manipulation and Reaching for Humanoids.- Facial and Behavioral Animation.- Conveying Emotions through Facially Animated Avatars in Networked Virtual Environments.- Animating Speech in Games.- Autonomous Digital Actors.

Blurb

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Motion in Games, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during June 14-17, 2008, in collaboration with the NLGD Festival of Games.

The 24 revised papers presented during the workshop cover topics on crowd simulation; virtual humans; motion synthesis; interfaces; navigation and steering; and facial and behavioral animation.