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Computer Model Turns Text Into Animation


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A computer model appears to be walking a tightrope.

A new computer model can translate text describing physical movements directly into simple computer-generated animation, a first step toward generating movies directly from scripts.

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Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) scientists have developed a computer model that can directly render text describing physical movements as computer-generated animation, an initial step toward creating movies from scripts.

The Joint Language-to-Pose (JL2P) neural architecture incorporates sentences and physical motions to deduce connections between language and action, gestures, and movement.

CMU's Louis-Philippe Morency said the current focus for JL2P is virtual character animation, but he suggested, "this link between language and gestures could be applied to robots; we might be able to simply tell a personal assistant robot what we want it to do."

JL2P views verbs and adverbs as classifying action and speed/acceleration, with nouns and adjectives describing locations and directions.

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