Conversa com Nelson Felix

M’mboyi, Felix

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Measuring the facial movements involved in conversa-

In this paper we analyze the degrees of freedom (DoF) of facial movements in face-to-face conversation. We propose a method for selecting automatically frames with specific facial expressions in a large fine-grained motion capture corpus that best complements an initial shape model based on neutral speech. Using conversational data from one speaker, we extract and characterize the 11 DoF that a...

Felix Lam

M’mboyi, Felix

Michael Felix Freshwater

Felix, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, was born in New York City on February 4, 1948. He graduated from Stuyvesant High and Brooklyn College. Here, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received his Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude and the Jonas Scholarship with which he attended Yale School of Medicine. After leaving Yale, he spent almost three years as a fellow in the ...