the goal of facial animation is to synthesize realistic facial animated images using computer graphics. because of its capability in creating facial animated images using a few amount of information, facial animation using feature vectors was extensively studied in recent years. in general, this method is considered as one of the performance-driven facial animation base methods. in this regard,...

This paper presents an entertainment-oriented application for mobile service, which generates customized speech-driven 3D facial animation and delivers to end-user by MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service). Some important methods of this application are discussed, including the 3D facial model based on 3 photos, the 3D facial animation driven by speech or text on-line and the video format transform...

In the paper, a methodology for individual face synthesis using given orthogonal photos is proposed. And an integrated speech-driven facial animation system is presented. Firstly, in order to capture given subject’s personal facial configuration, a novel coarse-to-fine strategy based on facial texture and deformable template is proposed to localize some facial feature points in the image of fro...

Recently, performance-driven facial animation has been popular in various entertainment area, such as game, animation movie, and advertisement. With the easy use of motion capture data from a performer’s face, the resulting animated faces are far more natural and lifelike. However, when the characteristic features between live performer and animated character are quite different, expression map...

In this paper we describe a method for re-mapping animation parameters between multiple types of facial model for performance driven animation. A facial performance can be analysed in terms of a set of facial action parameter trajectories using a modified appearance model with modes of variation encoding specific facial actions which we can pre-define.

In this paper we describe a method for re-mapping animation parameters between multiple types of facial model for performance driven animation. A facial performance can be analysed automatically in terms of a set of facial action trajectories using a modified appearance model with modes of variation encoding specific facial actions. These parameters can then be used to animate other appearance ...

In this paper we present a parametric model for facial animation and a method for adapting it to a specific person. Every facial expression can be described as a contraction or relaxation of the facial muscles. P. Ekman and F.W. Friesen selected 44 Action Units corresponding to visual changes on the face, which cannot be decomposed into smaller ones and which combinations universally represent ...

A real-time speech-driven synthetic talking face provides an effective multimodal communication interface in distributed collaboration environments. Nonverbal gestures such as facial expressions are important to human communication and should be considered by speech-driven face animation systems. In this paper, we present a framework that systematically addresses facial deformation modeling, au...