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.

谢里登学院提议与三个公司（Secret Location、AMD 和 SEED Interactive）合作，帮助他们实现媒体和娱乐行业解决方案的突破性交付，将人与虚拟的人类社交互动融入多平台用户体验中。虚拟人是计算机生成的角色，它们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）与人类以及彼此进行交流。拟议的项目将重点评估端到端虚拟人类架构所需的模块和技术，并关注与多媒体和娱乐部门制作工作流程的潜在集成。未来五年预计国际市场增长的两个重要领域的发展将带来虚拟人类商业应用大幅增长的潜力：虚拟现实和增强现实；和人工智能。商业化机会最终存在于媒体和娱乐领域；跨所有部门的培训和模拟；为医疗保健、居家养老、教育等领域的人际服务提供补充支持。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登研究人员团队能够与行业合作伙伴合作，找出有利于媒体和娱乐行业各个公司的解决方案，同时使加拿大多个经济和社会福利部门受益。