Tool Chain 1

Tool Chain 1: Virtual Visitor Centre

Tool Chain 1: Virtual Visitor Centre

• Component Tools and Newtons

• Meetings

• Progress

• Plans

Introduction

• Newtons Characterise 3D Kiosk

• Common Infrastructure• Tools

Model Building Scene Assembly Natural Language

Processing Avatar Animation Rendering

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Introduction

• ETHZ CityEngine Pompeii Model Restrict to small area because of model size

• UEA Urban Modelling Group CHARISMATIC scenes .OBJ, Collada Plus any tool making models in accepted formats:

• 3dsMax, Maya

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Model Building

Tool Chain 1: Virtual Visitor Centre

Tool Chain 1: Virtual Visitor Centre

Billboard objects defined by text to

represent trees, etc.

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Scene Assembly

• Brighton dialogue system Driven by model metadata Semantic similarity

User

NLP

NaturalLanguageInteraction

CIDOC-CRM

Database

NLG

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Natural Language Processing

• MIRALab & VRLab vhdPlus OpenGL-based crowd simulation

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Avatar Animation

• UEA Avatar Research Platform Crowd simulation

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Avatar Animation

• MIRALab & VRLab OpenGL-based crowd simulation

• UEA OpenSG Scene renderer

• Bonn BTF models

Rendering

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Tool Chain 1: Virtual Visitor Centre

• Zurich: 18 August 2006 Use Pompeii models Import Pompeii models in UEA Scene Assembler Interactive presentation

• Leuven: 09 January 2007 Restricted part of Pompeii with EPFL Crowd animation Link using Fedora content management system Interface BTF models to 3D PowerPoint

• Aims Video of Pompeii with EPFL Crowd animation Characterise Scene with guide avatars 3DKiosk using BTF player in 3D PowerPoint

Meetings and Plans

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