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This website and blog support the Virtual Humans book by David Burden and Maggi Savin-Baden published by Taylor & Francis in February 2019. Here you can find links to images, videos, papers, articles and application resources related to the topics covered by the book, and a blog maintained by the authors to track the development of this fascinating and vitally important topic.
Nice article on emotion detection using ML and an Ekman type emotional model.
https://bits-chips.nl/artikel/keeping-an-ai-on-astronauts-emotions/
Our Virtual Humans book is now out in paperback! Get it from Amazon and all good bookshops - COVID willing!
Looks like Hanson Robotics are releasing a new version of Sophia for "for research, academic and B2B applications".
Teaser video here
https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia-2020/
Frightening on so many levels :-)
David's talk at AI Tech North on "Enriching Virtual Humans through the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs" is now available on video:
It's a 20min watch, and followed by another interesting session on analysis of language in social media use.
Earlier during lockdown I recorded a short talk on virtual humans inspired by the Virtual Humans book for our publishers.
Taylor and Francis have now posted the talk on their web site in their AI Knowledge Hub strand. You can view it at https://aibusiness.com/video.asp?section_id=803&doc_id=763252 or below: