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“Low Level” Intelligence for “Low Level” Character Animation

“Low Level” Intelligence for “Low Level” Character Animation. “Low level” Animation …?. Animation not having to do with gross body movement or “behavior” Eye gaze Facial expression Ambient / idling animation Animation style Speech? Interesting because an “internal life” is implied.

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“Low Level” Intelligence for “Low Level” Character Animation

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  1. “Low Level” Intelligence for “Low Level” Character Animation

  2. “Low level” Animation …? • Animation not having to do with gross body movement or “behavior” • Eye gaze • Facial expression • Ambient / idling animation • Animation style • Speech? • Interesting because an “internal life” is implied

  3. Cognitive Modeling CM: Giving characters an internal life Too much autonomy?

  4. “Low level” Cognition …? A class of abilities that are relevant to, but independent of, high-level action • Perception • Knowledge modeling • Attention • Memory • Emotional reaction • Motion quality • …

  5. Example 1: AlphaWolf • Emotional memories: player has total control, but wolves react to instructions based on past experience • Wolves maintain their own cognition, memory and emotion models • B. Tomlinson, “Synthetic Social Relationships for Computational Entities”, PhD. Thesis, MIT Media Lab 2002

  6. Example 2: Object Persistence • Piaget: The persistence of a mental image after the sensory stimulus has been removed • Object Persistence = location expectation formation • Focus on search tasks (where do I expect the sheep to be?)

  7. Spatial Expectations Probabilistic Occupancy Map • Discrete spatial probability distribution • Uncertainty through discrete diffusion

  8. POM Algorithm If target observed: Find closest node n* Otherwise: Divide map nodes into visible (V) and nonvisible (N) sets Either way: Diffuse Probability

  9. Emergent Look-Around • Simple rule: always direct gaze towards most likely location of the target • Also: Emergent Search

  10. Expectations and Emotions Observations can have emotional impact • Wanted to see something but didn’t  confusion • Saw something where you didn’t expect it to be  surprise • Having trouble finding the target  frustration … plus variations • Target desired + confusion  disappointment • Target feared + surprise  panic • Target desired + surprise  delight Emotions may • Focus attention (salience) • Bias behavioral choices / Affect decision-making parameters • Affect animation (facial and parameterized) • Act as a debugging channel!

  11. Expectations and Emotions • Emotional Autonomic variable • Surprise (unexpected observation) • Confusion (negated expectation) • Proportional to amount of culled probability • Frustration (consistently negated expectations)

  12. Results: Duncan the Highland Terrier Duncan: • Virtual sheep-herding • Layered behavior system • Synthetic vision Results: • Emergent look-around • Emergent search • Salient Moving objects • Distribution-based object-mapping • Emotional reactions • Surprise • Confusion • Frustration Video

  13. Conclusions • “Low Level” Conclusions • A model of Object Persistence • Simple mechanism, complex results • Simple implementation • Intuitive • “High Level” Conclusion • Intelligence >> Action-selection • You control the wolves, but what they feel matters • You control Duncan, but what he knows matters

  14. Damián Isla naimad@media.mit.edu http://www.media.mit.edu/~naimad Bruce Blumberg bruce@media.mit.edu http://www.media.mit.edu/~bruce Questions? Synthetic Characters http://www.media.mit.edu/characters

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