MIRALab Copyright © Information 1998 Towards Natural Communication in Networked Collaborative Virtual Environments Igor Sunday Pandzic 1 , Tolga K. Capin 2 , Nadia Magnenat Thalmann 1 , Daniel Thalmann 2 1 MIRALAB, University of Geneva 2 Computer Graphics Laboratory (EPFL) • Introduction • Virtual Life Network • Virtual Humans in VLNET • Communication in NCVE • Facial Communication • Video-texturing of the face • Model-based coding of facial expressions • Lip movement synthesis from speech • Predefined expressions or animations • Gestural Communication • Direct tracking • Predefined postures or body gestures • Conclusions & Future Work • References Abstract: Networked Collaborative Virtual Environments (NCVE) have been a hot topic of research for