BEAT: The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit

Justine Cassell; Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson; Timothy Bickmore

doi:10.1145/383259.383315

BEAT: The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit

Justine Cassell, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Timothy Bickmore

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit (BEAT) allows animators to input typed text that they wish to be spoken by an animated human figure, and to obtain as output appropriate and synchronized nonverbal behaviors and synthesized speech in a form that can be sent to a number of different animation systems. The nonverbal behaviors are assigned on the basis of actual linguistic and contextual analysis of the typed text, relying on rules derived from extensive research into human conversational behavior. The toolkit is extensible, so that new rules can be quickly added. It is designed to plug into larger systems that may also assign personality profiles, motion characteristics, scene constraints, or the animation styles of particular animators.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	477-486
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	158113374X, 9781581133745
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/383259.383315
Publication status	Published - 2001
Event	28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001 - Los Angeles, CA, United States Duration: 12 Aug 2001 → 17 Aug 2001

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Name	Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001

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Conference	28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001
Country/Territory	United States
City	Los Angeles, CA
Period	12/08/01 → 17/08/01

Other keywords

animation systems
facial animation
gesture
speech synthesis

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Cassell, J., Vilhjálmsson, H. H., & Bickmore, T. (2001). BEAT: The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001 (pp. 477-486). (Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/383259.383315

Cassell, Justine ; Vilhjálmsson, Hannes Högni ; Bickmore, Timothy. / BEAT : The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2001. pp. 477-486 (Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001).

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Cassell, J, Vilhjálmsson, HH & Bickmore, T 2001, BEAT: The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit. in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 477-486, 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 12/08/01. https://doi.org/10.1145/383259.383315

BEAT : The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit. / Cassell, Justine; Vilhjálmsson, Hannes Högni; Bickmore, Timothy.

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2001. p. 477-486 (Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Cassell J, Vilhjálmsson HH, Bickmore T. BEAT: The Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2001. p. 477-486. (Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2001). doi: 10.1145/383259.383315

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