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ICNC 2006: Advances in Natural Computation pp 679–682Cite as

e-Shadow: A Real-Time Avatar for Casual Environment

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In this paper, we present a realistic avatar called e-Shadow. This avatar is a virtual shadow of a user and facial animations are injected into the head position as response to the user’s gestures. We adopt background subtraction method to separate the user’s shape from the background scene and combine several image processing methods in order to reduce noise. A heuristic algorithm for tracking positions of head and hands is proposed to detect predefined user’s gestures. Because e-Shadow assumes everyday indoor lighting, casual camera, and small desktop, it can be directly incorporated with video chatting programs as a realistic avatar and the presented detection method might be applied to the applications of real-time interactive media art.

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  1. School of Media and Information, Sungshin Women’s University, 249-1, Dongseon-dong 3-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea

    Yangmi Lim

  2. Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University, 221, Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Korea

    Jinwan Park

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  1. Life Science Research Center, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Licheng Jiao

  2. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block S1, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Lipo Wang

  3. School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian Univ., P.O. Box, 710071, Xi’an, P.R. China

    Xinbo Gao

  4. College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei Normal University, 050016, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, P.R. China

    Jing Liu

  5. Multi-Agent Systems Lab,Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, China

    Feng Wu

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Lim, Y., Park, J. (2006). e-Shadow: A Real-Time Avatar for Casual Environment. In: Jiao, L., Wang, L., Gao, X., Liu, J., Wu, F. (eds) Advances in Natural Computation. ICNC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11881223_84

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