Natural Language Implementation for Virtual Humans

虚拟人的自然语言实现

• 批准号: 521104-2017
• 负责人: England, Andrea
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=697620
• 关键词: Natural; Language; Implementation; Virtual; Humans

Sheridan College proposes to partner with SEED Interactive, a leading interactive digital media content producer, to help them achieve breakthrough delivery of solutions within human-virtual human interaction. The project will centre on research and development into verbal interactions within a variety of media delivery platforms including virtual and augmented reality and commercial game engines. The goal is to enhance the believability and realism of these interactions and the user experience as a whole. Virtual humans (VHs) are computer-generated characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate using natural human modalities including facial expressions, speech and gesture. The potential for dramatic growth in the commercial application of VHs is being enabled by developments in two significant areas of predicted international market growth over the next five years: virtual and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. Commercialization opportunities exist within media and entertainment; training and simulation across all sectors; and supplementary support for human-to-human provision of services in areas such as healthcare, aging in place, and education. At the present time, however, research and commercialization is hampered by a variety of factors including the complexity of the technologies required within an end-to-end solution. The project will enable a team of Sheridan researchers from the digital arts, computer sciences, and social sciences to work together with an industry partner and university collaborators to develop solutions that benefit the company while having secondary benefit throughout multiple Canadian economic and social welfare sectors. The project will leverage the college's research and development strengths in real-time animation, virtual and augmented reality, mobile computing, gaming, machine learning, and elder research. It will contribute to the development of a globally significant research cluster on Virtual Humans being established with concurrent two-year funding from the Ontario Centres of Excellence.

谢里丹学院（Sheridan College）建议与领先的交互式数字媒体内容生产商Seed Interactive合作，以帮助他们实现人类虚拟人类互动中解决方案的突破性交付。该项目将在各种媒体交付平台（包括虚拟和增强现实和商业游戏引擎）中的研究和开发中心进入口头交互。目的是增强这些互动的可信度和现实性和整个用户体验。虚拟人类（VHS）是计算机生成的字符，具有类似人类的品质并使用天然人类方式进行交流，包括面部表情，言语和手势。在未来五年中，在两个重要的国际市场增长的重要领域的发展中，VHS商业应用的急剧增长的潜力是：虚拟和增强现实以及人工智能。媒体和娱乐中存在商业化机会；跨所有部门的培训和模拟；以及在医疗保健，衰老和教育等领域提供人类服务的补充支持。 但是，目前，研究和商业化受到多种因素的阻碍，包括端到端解决方案中所需的技术的复杂性。该项目将使来自数字艺术，计算机科学和社会科学的谢里丹研究人员团队与行业合作伙伴和大学合作者合作，开发有益于公司的解决方案，同时在加拿大多个加拿大经济和社会福利部门中获得次要收益。该项目将在实时动画，虚拟和增强现实，移动计算，游戏，机器学习和老年研究中利用学院的研发优势。这将有助于开发一个全球重要的研究集群，该研究集群是在安大略省卓越中心同时建立的两年资金中建立的虚拟人类。