Virtual Humans Within Entertainment Content

娱乐内容中的虚拟人

• 批准号: 536659-2018
• 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=699205
• 关键词: Virtual; Humans; Within; Entertainment; Content

Sheridan College proposes to partner with three companies (Secret Location, AMD, and SEED Interactive) to help them achieve breakthrough delivery of media and entertainment sector solutions integrating human-virtual human social interaction within multiplatform user experiences. Virtual humans are computer-generated characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans and each other using natural human modalities including facial expressions, speech and gesture. The proposed project will focus on evaluation of modules and technologies required for an end-to-end virtual human architecture with attention to the potential integration with multiple media and entertainment sector production workflows. The potential for dramatic growth in commercial application of virtual humans 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 ultimately 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, commercialization is hampered by a variety of factors including the complexity of the technologies required within an end-to-end solution. The proposed project will enable a team of Sheridan researchers from the digital arts, computer sciences, and social sciences to work together with industry partners to identify solutions that benefit individual companies within the media and entertainment sector while having secondary benefit throughout multiple Canadian economic and social welfare sectors.

谢里丹学院（Sheridan College）建议与三家公司（秘密地点，AMD和种子互动）合作，以帮助他们实现媒体和娱乐部门解决方案的突破性交付，这些解决方案将人类虚拟的人类社交互动整合到乘坐多页面用户体验中。虚拟人类是计算机生成的角色，它们具有人类般的品质，并使用自然的人类方式与人类和彼此进行交流，包括面部表情，言语和手势。拟议的项目将着重于评估端到端虚拟人类建筑所需的模块和技术，并关注与多个媒体和娱乐部门生产工作流程的潜在集成。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，虚拟人类的商业应用中急剧增长的潜力是：虚拟和增强现实；和人工智能。商业化机会最终存在于媒体和娱乐中；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。然而，目前，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。拟议的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合作，以确定在媒体和娱乐部门中各个公司的解决方案，同时在加拿大多个加拿大经济和社会中获得次要利益福利部门。