Last Wednesday through Friday (Sept. 24th – 26th) I attended the Virtual Human Toolkit Workshop held by ICT. The workshop was mainly for graduate students working in the area of AI agents. The group was pretty diverse, from all over the country and overseas. It felt kinda weird though because all the students had academic advisors that the ICT team knew. So we were like the kids going to see some old family friend.
The workshop was great. ICT has a wide array of projects that are making use of virtual humans that they presented to use. The first day of the workshop was about the theory and results behind their work. The virtual human pipeline covers a lot of ground: speech/gesture recognition, NL processing, AI Cognition, non-verbal behaviors, text-to-speech, etc.
