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GRAPHITE
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Mimicing 3D transformations of emotional stylised animation with minimal 2D input
In this paper we introduce a novel approach to assist a graphical artist throughout the creation of traditional facial animation. We focus on eliminating the time-consuming proces...
Fabian Di Fiore, Frank Van Reeth
ICIP
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Facial feature extraction using topological methods
Automatic facial feature extraction is one of the most important and attempted problems in computer vision. It is a necessary step in face recognition, facial image compression an...
A. Gunduz, Hamid Krim
AMFG
2003
IEEE
152views Biometrics» more  AMFG 2003»
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Fully Automatic Upper Facial Action Recognition
This paper provides a new fully automatic framework to analyze facial action units, the fundamental building blocks of facial expression enumerated in Paul Ekman’s Facial Action...
Ashish Kapoor, Yuan (Alan) Qi, Rosalind W. Picard
MM
2004
ACM
195views Multimedia» more  MM 2004»
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Facial expression representation and recognition based on texture augmentation and topographic masking
The variation of facial texture and surface due to the change of expression is an important cue for analyzing and modeling facial expressions. In this paper, we propose a new appr...
Lijun Yin, Johnny Loi, Wei Xiong
NIME
2005
Springer
131views Music» more  NIME 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Sonification of Facial Actions for Musical Expression
The central role of the face in social interaction and non-verbal communication suggest we explore facial action as a means of musical expression. This paper presents the design, ...
Mathias Funk, Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Michael J. Lyons
AMFG
2005
IEEE
162views Biometrics» more  AMFG 2005»
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Facial Expression Representation Based on Timing Structures in Faces
Abstract. This paper presents a method for interpreting facial expressions based on temporal structures among partial movements in facial image sequences. To extract the structures...
Masahiro Nishiyama, Hiroaki Kawashima, Takatsugu H...
APGV
2006
ACM
196views Visualization» more  APGV 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Semantic 3D motion retargeting for facial animation
We present a system for realistic facial animation that decomposes facial motion capture data into semantically meaningful motion channels based on the Facial Action Coding System...
Cristóbal Curio, Martin Breidt, Mario Klein...
ACCV
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Vision Based Speech Animation Transferring with Underlying Anatomical Structure
We present a novel method to transfer speech animation recorded in low resolution videos onto realistic 3D facial models. Unsupervised learning is utilized on a speech video corpus...
Yuru Pei, Hongbin Zha
MIRAGE
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Re-mapping Animation Parameters Between Multiple Types of Facial Model
Abstract. In this paper we describe a method for re-mapping animation parameters between multiple types of facial model for performance driven animation. A facial performance can b...
Darren Cosker, Steven Roy, Paul L. Rosin, A. David...
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Feature-Adaptive Motion Energy Analysis for Facial Expression Recognition
In this paper, we present a facial expression recognition method using feature-adaptive motion energy analysis. Our method is simplicityoriented and avoids complicated face model r...
Sungkyu Noh, Hanhoon Park, Yoonjong Jin, Jong-Il P...