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WSCG
2004
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13 years 6 months ago
Production Interface for WEB-deliverable Realistic Interactive 3D Facial Animation
We present a new interface for producing high quality web deliverable interactive 3D facial animation. We aim at providing visual artists with established 3D character animation t...
Nicoletta Adamo-Villani, Amit Chourasia, Clark A. ...
AVI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Xface: MPEG-4 based open source toolkit for 3D Facial Animation
In this paper, we present our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D talking agents, namely Xface. It relies on MPEG-4 Face Animation (FA) standard. The toolk...
Koray Balci
VR
2000
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
LoD Management on Animating Face Models
In this paper, we present our work on a level of detail(LoD) technique for human-like face models in virtual environments. Conventional LoD techniques have been adapted to allow f...
Hyewon Seo, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
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A Performance Based Parametric Model for Facial Animation
In this paper we present a parametric model for facial animation and a method for adapting it to a specific person. Every facial expression can be described as a contraction or r...
Ania Wojdel, Léon J. M. Rothkrantz
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
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Talking Heads and Synthetic Speech: An Architecture for Supporting Electronic Commerce
Facial animation has been combined with text-to-speech synthesis to create innovative multimodal interfaces. In this paper, we present an architecture for this multimodal interfac...
Jörn Ostermann, David R. Millen
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Translingual Visual Speech Synthesis
—This paper describes a morphing-based audio driven facial animation system. Based on an incoming audio stream, a face image is animated with full lip synchronization and synthes...
Tanveer A. Faruquie, Chalapathy Neti, Nitendra Raj...
PG
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
May I talk to you? : -)" - Facial Animation from Text
We introduce a facial animation system that produces real-time animation sequences including speech synchronization and non-verbal speech-related facial expressions from plain tex...
Irene Albrecht, Jörg Haber, Kolja Kähler...
ANSS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Animating 3D Facial Models with MPEG-4 FaceDefTables
In this paper, the principle of facial animation compatible with the MPEG-4 standard is introduced. Then the algorithm of calculating the displacements of face mesh vertices withi...
Dalong Jiang, Zhiguo Li, Zhaoqi Wang, Wen Gao
ICMI
2005
Springer
267views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
XfaceEd: authoring tool for embodied conversational agents
In this paper, XfaceEd, our open source, platform independent tool for authoring 3D embodied conversational agents (ECAs) is presented. Following MPEG-4 Facial Animation (FA) stan...
Koray Balci
ICWL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Piece-Wise Learning Approach to 3D Facial Animation
Web-based 3D facial animation is an alternative of face to face communication. Animating 3D human faces is also a difficult task because of the substantive non-rigid facial motions...
Yushun Wang, Yueting Zhuang, Jun Xiao, Fei Wu