Three different polygon morphing methods are examined. The first one is based on the utilization of the trimmed skeleton of the symmetric difference of the source and target polygons as an intermediate polygon. The second one reduces the problem to the problem of morphing compatible planar triangulations and utilizes the representation of planar triangulations as a matrix constructed using bary...

Synthesis of shape morphing compliant mechanism is inherently different from typical single output design problems, due to the multiple output points along the morphing boundary. We have previously developed a genetic algorithm (GA) based synthesis approaches, incorporating a binary ground structure parameterization, to systematically design shape morphing compliant mechanisms. However, the app...

We have developed a method for synthesizing a singing voice by gradually changing the musical expression based on speech morphing. This paper shows the advantages of this method in comparison with the approach of binary discrete transformation between two expressions, confirmed by statistical analyses of perception tests. In order to synthesize different expressional strengths of a singing voic...

We present a new approach for establishing correspondence between two homeomorphic 3D polyhedral models. The user can specify corresponding feature pairs on the polyhedra with a simple and intuitive interface. Based on these features, our algorithm decomposes the boundary of each polyhedron into the same number of morphing patches. A 2D mapping for each morphing patch is computed in order to me...

This paper presents a system that transforms the speech signals of speakers with physical speech disabilities into a more intelligible orm that can be more easily understood by listeners. These transformations are based on the correction of pronunciation errors y the removal of repeated sounds, the insertion of deleted sounds, the devoicing of unvoiced phonemes, the adjustment of the empo of sp...

3. Assess the realism of the talking face. We plan to perform several psychophysical tests to evaluate the realism of our system. 4. Extend our approach using morphable model from TTVS to TTS. We plan to first study morphing of audio sequences. The system will take as input 2 audio sequences, and produce as output intermediate audio sequences that approximate natural exemplars lying between the...