Virtual Humans Within Entertainment Content

谢里丹学院建议与三家公司（秘密位置，AMD和种子互动）合作，以帮助他们实现媒体和娱乐行业解决方案的突破性交付，在多平台用户体验中集成人与虚拟人的社交互动。虚拟人是计算机生成的角色，表现出类似人类的品质，并使用自然的人类模式（包括面部表情，语音和手势）与人类进行交流。拟议项目将侧重于评估端到端虚拟人架构所需的模块和技术，并关注与多个媒体和娱乐部门制作工作流程的潜在整合。虚拟人的商业应用的巨大增长潜力，是由未来五年预计国际市场增长的两个重要领域的发展实现的：虚拟和增强现实;以及人工智能。商业化机会最终存在于媒体和娱乐;所有部门的培训和模拟;以及在医疗保健、就地养老和教育等领域为人对人提供服务的补充支持。然而，目前，商业化受到各种因素的阻碍，包括端到端解决方案所需技术的复杂性。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共同努力，以确定有利于媒体和娱乐行业内的个别公司的解决方案，同时在加拿大多个经济和社会福利部门中获得次要利益。

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.