E-partner: A photo-realistic conversation agent

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Abstract

An E-Partner is a photo-realistic conversation agent, which has a talking head that not only look photo-realistic but also can have a conversation with the user about a given topic. The conversation is multimedia-enriched in that the E-Partner presents relevant multimedia materials throughout the conversation. To address the challenges presented by the complex conversation domain and task, and to achieve adaptive behaviors, we have derived a novel dialogue manager design consisting of five parts: a domain model, a dialogue model, a discourse model, a task model, and a user model. We also extended existing facial animation techniques to create photo-realistic talking heads that facilitate conversational interactions. Some practical issues like how to handle the uncertainty from speech level are also discussed.

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Zhang, B., Hu, C., Cai, Q., Guo, B., & Shum, H. (2001). E-partner: A photo-realistic conversation agent. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 2195, pp. 261–268). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45453-5_34

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