5 papers
Emotion Intensity Matters: Generating Realistic Expressions in Virtual Humans with CVAEs
Vitor Miguel Xavier Peres, Lara Volpato, Gabriel Ferri Scnheider +1
Generating expressive facial behavior in virtual humans (VHs) remains a central challenge in affective computing and character animation. This paper presents a novel approach based…
Computer Vision for Wildlife Monitoring: Detecting Brown Howler Monkeys using YOLO
Gabriel Ferri Schneider, Guido Luis Glufke Mainardi, Paulo Ricardo Knob +4
Urban expansion threatens global biodiversity, especially affecting arboreal species due to the fragmentation of forest habitats. The movement of arboreal species across disjointed…
LLM-Driven Personalities for Decision Making in Emergency Simulations
Stefano Calzolari, Rubens Montanha, Gabriel Schneider +5
For virtual humans to appear believable, they must exhibit agency and spatial awareness while interacting with their environment in ways that reflect competence and intelligence. A…
True to Tone? Quantifying Skin Tone Fidelity and Bias in Photographic-to-Virtual Human Pipelines
Gabriel Ferri Schneider, Erick Menezes, Rafael Mecenas +3
Accurate reproduction of facial skin tone is essential for realism, identity preservation, and fairness in Virtual Human (VH) rendering. However, most accessible avatar creation pi…
Are You Listening to Me? Fine-Tuning Chatbots for Empathetic Dialogue
Paulo Ricardo Knob, Leonardo Scholler, Juliano Rigatti +1
Conversational agents have made significant progress since ELIZA, expanding their role across various domains, including healthcare, education, and customer service. As these agent…