Computer Animation and Simulation '99

1. Virtual Humans.- Simple Machines for Scaling Human Motion.- Tracking and Modifying Upper-Body Human Motion Data with Dynamic Simulation.- Guiding and Interacting with Virtual Crowds.- Animation Levels of Detail Design for Real-Time Virtual Human.- Pro-actively Interactive Evolution for Computer Animation.- The Effects of Noise on the Perception of Animated Human Running.- 2. Collision Techniques.- A Model of Collision Perception for Real-Time Animation.- Keyframe Interpolation with Self-Collision Avoidance.- 3. Facial Animation and Communication.- MPEG-4-Based Animation with Face Feature Tracking.- Speech Driven Facial Animation.- Requirements for an Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters.- 4. Animation Models.- Details and Implementation Issues of Animating Brachiation.- Interactive Multiresolution Animation of Deformable Models.- Building Layered Animation Models from Captured Data.- 5. Realism.- Reconstruction and Physically-based Animation of Trees from Static Images.- Heuristical Real-Time Shadows.- A Physics Based Multi-Resolution Model for the Simulation of Turbulent Gases and Combustion.- 6. Behavioral Animation.- Sensor Modeling for a Walking Robot Simulation.- The Kernel of a Scenario Language for Animation and Simulation.- Continuous Learning in a Behavioral Animation.- Appendix: Colour Illustrations.