Evaluating Face Models Animated by MPEG-4 FAPs
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چکیده
We want to investigate how well animated face models can express emotions when controlled by low level MPEG-4 FAPs reproducing the facial motion captured from real persons acting out the emotions. We propose a test procedure for evaluating the expressiveness of a face model and compare it to other face models as well as to real video. The test is reproducible, and the software and data used are publically available. We also propose one relative and one absolute measure by which the results can be measured and different face models be compared to each other.
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