• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.41-49
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• 2004

As a means of overcoming the linguistic barrier between different languages in the Internet cyberspace, a sign-language communication system has been proposed. However, the system supports avatars having the same model structure so that it is difficult to communicate between different avatar models. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new gesture communication system in which different avatars models can communicate with each other by using a FBML (Facial Body Markup Language). Using the FBML, we define a standard document format that contains the messages to be transferred between models, where the document includes the action units of facial expression and the joint angles of gesture animation. The proposed system is implemented with Visual C++ and Open Inventor on Windows platforms. The experimental results demonstrate a possibility that the method could be used as an efficient means to overcome the linguistic problem.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.57-60
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• 2003

In order to overcome the limitation based on different avatar models, in this paper, we propose gesture communications between different avatar models using FBML (Facial Body Markup Language). The experimental results demonstrate a possibility that the proposed method could be used as an efficient means to overcome the problem.