Virtual Marionette project was mentioned in the monthly news of Instituto Telecomunicações (IT)
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Instituto de Telecomunicações has participated in the science show that was held at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Ciência Viva in Lisbon. A team from Porto Interactive Center presented three demos: the project LIFEisGAME, which explores the possibility of teaching people with Autism Spectrum Disorder to recognize facial emotions, using real time synthesis and automatic facial expression analysis; Virtual Marionette, a research on digital puppetry via an interdisciplinary approach that brings the art of puppetry into the world of digital animation, and 3D Scanner, a system to create a high-quality human like 3D facial avatar by drastically improving the quality of 3D avatars and reducing the time spent in the process. From IT at Lisbon came BITalino, described in page 1, and a couple of demos of the Internet of the Future concept based on RFID. The stand from IT attracted more than 500 very interested visitors.”