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Improvise: Automated Generation of Animated Graphics for Coordinated Multimedia Presentations

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Cooperative Multimodal Communication (CMC 1998)

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In this chapter, we describe a graphics generation system, Improvise (Illustrative Metaphor PROduction in VISual Environments), focusing on how it can be used to design coordinated multimedia presentations. Improvise is a knowledge-based system that can automatically create sequences of animated graphical illustrations to convey a wide variety of data. Our emphasis here is on describing how four important features of Improvise facilitate coordinated multimedia presentation design. These four features are: a knowledge-rich representation of input data, a fine-grained temporal model of visual techniques, an action-based inference engine, and a portable visual realizer.

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  1. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    Michelle X. Zhou

  2. Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York

    Steven K. Feiner

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  1. Computational Linguistics and AI Group, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Harry Bunt

  2. Department of Information and Computing Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508, TB Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Robbert -Jan Beun

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Zhou, M.X., Feiner, S.K. (2001). Improvise: Automated Generation of Animated Graphics for Coordinated Multimedia Presentations. In: Bunt, H., Beun, R.J. (eds) Cooperative Multimodal Communication. CMC 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45520-5_4

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