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Charisma Cam is a software for real-time behavioral analysis, based on Automatic Movie Analysis (AMA). It extracts information from human body language, using the Motion Energy Detection (MED) approach. It detects changes in shapes, rather than trying to build complex mathematical models of individual body movements. This allows for quantitative assessment of movement qualities independently of their Gestalt. The demo shows a system that generates a personality profile for the ”Big 5” by analyzing human body movements (dancing) in real time. In a way Charisma Cam simulates low-level vision-processing algorithms of the human brain. Thus it can be seen as a prototype of an intelligent Digital Sensory Organ that could augment simulation engines for virtual humans in future.
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Bechinie, M., Grammer, K. (2003). Charisma Cam: A Prototype of an Intelligent Digital Sensory Organ for Virtual Humans. In: Rist, T., Aylett, R.S., Ballin, D., Rickel, J. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39396-2_35
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