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Artificial Intelligence for Digital Characters
Last Updated: 2026-02-05 16:38:52
Abstract
This lecture provides an overview of techniques to build conversational digital characters.
Objective
This lecture provides an overview of techniques to build conversational digital characters. Three main components of conversational digital characters are introduced: Chatbots, animation synthesis, and speech synthesis. Real-life application of such digital characters is demonstrated on different use cases (e.g., digital Einstein).
Content
This lecture opens with basics on digital characters. Afterwards, the main components to build a conversational digital character are introduced. This includes the basics of natural language processing used to build a chatbot, animating a digital character based on motion capturing and deep learning, and synthesizing the speech. Further, autonomous agents based on knowledge graphs are covered. The lecture ends with real-life applications of digital characters.
Resources
Literature
Lecture slides will be made available at the course website.
Learning Materials (Links)
- Main link
- Information
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- MSC , WBZ
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- session examination
- Mode
- written 120 minutes
- Aids
- • No summary allowed at the exam• Non-programmable calculator allowed• Neutral dictionary (mother tongue to English) allowed
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| lecture | Artificial Intelligence for Digital Characters |
|
2 h weekly |
| independent project | Artificial Intelligence for Digital Characters | No time listed | 1 h weekly |