Human Interface employing Intelligent Anthropomorphic Agent with Realistic Figure

人机界面技术在信息化社会中越来越重要。作为一种新型的人机接口，我们开发了一个融合实时图像合成、实时运动图像识别、语音识别/合成和知识库技术的拟人智能体系统VSA（visualsoftwareagent）。我们的VSA具有通过实时纹理映射到3D模型上生成的逼真的面部图像、语音通信能力、响应于人类用户的视觉识别结果的交互能力以及对Internet/WWW的访问功能。特别地，我们已经成功地将我们的VSA与Mosaic连接，Mosaic是Internet中WWW（World Wide Wed）的典型浏览器。因此，我们的VSA系统变得有一个很大的优势，它可以使用大量的多媒体信息源在互联网上和新的信息传输通过VSA接口可以写在一个广泛的标准化的HTML（超文本化妆语言）格式。而且，提供一种具有接近人类日常生活中面对面通信的新的多模态的新型WWW浏览器成为可能。

Human interface technologies are becoming important increasingly in the advanced information-oriented society. As a new-type human interface, we have developed an anthropomorhipc agent system called VSA(visual software agent), which is based on the fusion of realtime image synthesis, realtime moving image recognition, speech recognition/synthesis and knowledge base technologies. Our VSA has a realistic facial image generated by a realtime texture-mapping onto a 3D model, speech communication capability, interactive capability responsive to the visual recognition result of a human user, and an access function to Internet/WWW.In particular, we have successfully connected our VSA with Mosaic, a typical browser of WWW (World Wide Wed) in the Internet. As a result, our VSA system becomes to have a big advantage that it can use vast multimedia information sources in the Internet and new information to be transmitted through the VSA interface can be written in a wide-spreaded standalized HTML (hyper text makeup language) format. Also, it becomes possible to provide a new-type WWW browser with new multi-modalities close to face-to-face communication in human daily life.