著者

小木 哲朗 山田 俊郎 栗田 裕二 服部 陽一 廣瀬 通孝

出版者

特定非営利活動法人 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会

雑誌

日本バーチャルリアリティ学会論文誌 (ISSN:1344011X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.1, pp.37-46, 2003

参考文献数

54

被引用文献数

4

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Video avatar technology has become very popular as a high presence communication tool in the shared virtual world. In order to generate a realistic video avatar, several modeling techniques, such as the 2D plate model, 2.5D surface model or 3D voxel model have been proposed. This paper discusses the features and the usage of the various video avatar techniques. The appropriate video avatar that is used in the application system should be selected according to the purpose and the system environments. In addition, we also discuss the video avatar studio and the video avatar server technologies that were developed to utilize the various video avatar methods effectively in the networked virtual environments.