Our goal is to build a system of 3D animation and facial expressions of emotion correlated with the intonation of the voice. Up till now, the existing systems did not take into account the link between these two features. We will look at the rules that control these relations (intonation/emotions and facial expressions/emotions) as well as the coordination of these various modes and expressions...

We present ongoing work on the development of new methods for highly realistic facial animation. One of the main contributions is the use of real-world, high-precision data for both the timing of the animation and the deformation of the face geometry. For animation, a set of morph shapes acquired through a 3D scanner is linearly morphed according to timing extracted from point tracking data rec...

Goals The basic objective of VIDAS was that of approaching the problem of facial animation from a combined audio-video point of view, for both the analysis and the synthesis. The main goal was the consolidation of advanced technologies for synthetic/natural representation and coding of facial sequences. In particular, a generic face-to-face communication has been modelled as a multimodal inform...

This paper presents a system for facial animation retargeting that allows learning a high-quality mapping between motion capture data and arbitrary target characters. We address one of the main challenges of existing example-based retargeting methods, the need for a large number of accurate training examples to define the correspondence between source and target expression spaces. We show that ...