Facial Animation from Several Images

We propose a novel method for synthesizing facial animation with 3-D pose and expression changes. On animation synthesis, one of the most important issues has been realistic face generation. Usual methods with 3-D facial model, however, have not realized natural face synthesis which represents the details and delicate changes of facial expressions. In our method, a facial image is synthesized directly from multiple input images without explicit reconstruction of 3-D facial shape. Since this method uses the actual images, realistic facial animation which holds detailed facial features can be synthesized. The linear combination of multiple poses realizes the 3-D geometric appearance changes, and the texture blending is used for the smooth surface texture changes. Both of poses and expressions can be treated in a same framework in our method, while they are handled separately in the usual methods.