Computer animation and simulation '99 : proceedings of the Eurographics workshop in Milano, Italy, September 7-8, 1999

Virtual Humans: Simple Machines for Scaling Human Motion (Nancy S. Pollard) Tracking and Modifying Upper-Body Human Motion Data with Dynamic Simulation (Victor B. Zordan, Jessica K. Hodgins) Guiding and Interacting with Virtual Crowds (Soraia Raupp Musse, Fabien Garat , Daniel Thalmann) Animation Levels of Detail Design for Real-Time Virtual Human (Remi Cozot, Franck Multon, Bernard Valton , Bruno Arnaldi) Pro-actively Interactive Evolution for Computer Animation (Ik Soo Lim, Daniel Thalmann) The Effects of Noise on the Perception of Animated Human Running (Bobby Bodenheimer, Anna V. Shleyfman, Jessica K. Hodgins).- Collision Techniques: A Model of Collision Perception for Real-Time Animation (Carol O'Sullivan, Ralph Radach, Steven Collins) Keyframe Interpolation with Self-Collision Avoidance (Jean-Christophe Nebel).- Facial Animation and Communication: MPEG-4-Based Animation with Face Feature Tracking (Taro Goto, Marc Escher, Christian Zanardi, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann) Speech Driven Facial Animation (Tzong-Jer Yang, I-Chen Lin, Cheng-Sheng Hung, Chien-Feng Huang, Ming Ouhyoung) Requirements for an Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters (J. Cassell, T. Bickmore, L. Campbell, K. Chang, H. Vilhjalmsson, H. Yan).- Animation Models: Details and Implementation Issues of Animating Brachiation (Zhang Zheng, Kok Cheong Wong) Interactive Multiresolution Animation of Deformable Models (Gilles Debunne, Mathieu Desbrun, Alan Barr, Marie-Paule Cani) Building Layered Animation Models from Captured Data (Wei Sun, Adrian Hilton, Raymond Smith, John Illingworth).- Realism: Reconstruction and Physically-based Animation of Trees from Static Images (Enhua Wu, Tao Yan, Yanyun Chen, Jinhui Feng) Heuristical Real-Time Shadows (David Meaney, Carol O'Sullivan) A Physics Based Multi-Resolution Model for the Simulation of Turbulent Gases and Combustion (Daniel Barrero, Mathias Paulin, Rene Caubet).- Behavioral Animation: Sensor Modeling for a Walking RobotSimulation (L. France, A. Girault, J-D. Gascuel, B. Espiau) The Kernel of a Scenario Language for Animation and Simulation (Stephane Donikian , Frederic Devillers, Guillaume Moreau) Continuous Learning in a Behavioral Animation (J. D. Fouks and L. Signac).- Appendix: Colour Illustrations.