Unreal Tournament 3 GOAL Environment

Report about the design and development of the Unreal Tournament 3 EIS Environment for GOAL.

Virtual humans in games: Realistic behavior and emotions for non-player characters

In this project we have set out to promote behavioral-realism in non-player characters (NPCs) on an emotional level. We do this as a step towards a tool that will allow developers to build ?exible and scalable emotional behavior for NPCs and that could be used either in game-development applications or scienti?c psychological studies. In order...

Dynamic Artificial Daylight Simulation

The purpose of this study is to find an appropriate sky model for further development of an artificial daylight solution. The current concept for the artificial daylight solution, developed at Philips Research, contains a skylight with a static sky view. To make this concept more realistic and appealing Philips is interested in investigating how...

Evaluating the impact of digital filters on the aesthetic appeal of photographs: A crowdsourcing based approach

In particular grouping by aesthetics and quality of the media has brought along new challenges for Computational Aesthetics research such as what makes an image beautiful, what means beautiful and how do you quantify beautiful. to meet those challenges, researchers have tried to come up with several algorithms based in different metrics to...

All roads lead to ROMA: Design and evaluation of a Robust Online Map-generation Algorithm based on position traces

Keeping maps up to date is quite costly because road geometry changes over time and mapping by professional surveyors is an expensive operation. With the presence of GPS sensors on mobile phones and in most cars today it becomes possible to measure the location of roads with many measurements from sensors of lower accuracy. In this thesis we...

Route programming on a mobile barn cleaner

The ‘Lely Discovery’ is an automated mobile barn cleaner, which routes are programmed by a ‘teaching method’. The routes are specified by a linear action sequence to be executed by the robot. Teaching a route to the Lely Discovery requires users to execute every action first by walking the robot through the barn. The route teaching method is...

3D Audio for Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is an effective method to treat anxiety disorders and comes with many advantages over exposure in vivo, the latter being exposure in real-life. VRET is done by exposing patients gradually with their fear by using immersive virtual environments (VEs). Most attention in VRET research goes to visuals and less...

Enhancing BCI Based Navigation by Adding Intention Detection and a Virtual Assistant

If a person is severely disabled, he can be stuck in a wheelchair without being able to effectively control it. One method to regain control is through a Brain Computer Interface (BCI). However, using a BCI for direct input has several drawbacks, such as a low accuracy, low bitrate (causing a delay in input) and high required mental effort. As a...

Temporal adaptation to light intensity for spatially complex stimuli

The human eye is a complex organ of the human body which is able to cope with a lot of different situations. One of these situations is adapting to different light intensities by changing the dynamic range of the eye, so-called temporal adaptation. This report gives insight into what temporal adaptation means for luminance visibility while...

Comparing Integrators on Perceived Realism and Quality

Nowadays almost everything is digital. Even testing new products can be done by simulating them digitally, also called virtual prototyping. This report describes research that is done to improve virtual prototyping at Philips Research. Two experiments have been performed with the aim to evaluate how image quality and realism are affected by the...

Introducing distributed networks to designers: Development of an educational software tool and a methodology for its evaluation

Available connectivity in everyday objects has inspired design experts to develop methodologies for designing interactive environments - large-scale environments existing out of multiple embedded devices that interact with a user as if to be a single entity. The computer science community uses ad hoc distributed networks to accommodate scaling...

Supported independence on Mars: Design and evaluation of model-based ePartner support for astronauts on Mars

For manned missions to Mars, one of the challenges is to maintain safety in the complex and dynamic space environment. Communication to Mars will suffer from significant delays, potentially endangering a mission if assistance is needed immediately; therefore a high level of independence from ground control is necessary to be able to cope with...

The Affective Storyteller: How Emotion Influences Narrative Generation

In this research it is investigated how character emotions can be used to aid the narrative generation process. To this end the Affective Storyteller is developed, a narrative generation framework where character emotions are closely interconnected with the narrative generation process. For story generation in the Affective Storyteller, it is...