Pierre Nugues, CS, LTH

Carsim, a system to synthesize animated 3D scenes from written accident 
reports.

Wednesday, 24th March, 13.15

Abstract:

We will describe Carsim,  a system to create animated 3D scenes of car
accidents from reports written in Swedish. Carsim has been
developed using news reports of varying size and complexity. The
text-to-scene conversion process consists of two stages. An
information extraction module creates a tabular description of the
accident and a visual simulator generates and animates the scene.

We will first describe the overall structure of the text-to-scene 
conversion and the template structure. We will then explain the 
information extraction and visualization  modules. We show 
demonstrations the car animation output.