An example-based approach for facial expression cloning

H Pyun, Y Kim, W Chae, HW Kang… - ACM SIGGRApH 2006 …, 2006‏ - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a novel example-based approach for cloning facial expressions of
a source model to a target model while reflecting the characteristic features of the target …

[PDF][PDF] Computer facial animation: A review

HY **, LN Abdullah, PS Sulaiman… - International Journal of …, 2013‏ - academia.edu
Computer facial animation is not a new endeavour as it had been introduced since 1970s.
However, animating human face still presents interesting challenges because of its …

Mood swings: expressive speech animation

E Chuang, C Bregler - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2005‏ - dl.acm.org
Motion capture-based facial animation has recently gained popularity in many applications,
such as movies, video games, and human-computer interface designs. With the use of …

Performance‐driven muscle‐based facial animation

B Choe, H Lee, HS Ko - The Journal of Visualization and …, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
We describe a system to synthesize facial expressions by editing captured performances.
For this purpose, we use the actuation of expression muscles to control facial expressions …

Analysis and synthesis of facial expressions with hand-generated muscle actuation basis

B Choe, HS Ko - ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Courses, 2006‏ - dl.acm.org
We present a performance-driven facial animation system for analyzing captured
expressions to find muscle actuation and synthesizing expressions with the actuation …

Bilinear kernel reduced rank regression for facial expression synthesis

D Huang, F De la Torre - European conference on computer vision, 2010‏ - Springer
In the last few years, Facial Expression Synthesis (FES) has been a flourishing area of
research driven by applications in character animation, computer games, and human …

Accurate visible speech synthesis based on concatenating variable length motion capture data

J Ma, R Cole, B Pellom, W Ward… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel approach to synthesizing accurate visible speech based on searching
and concatenating optimal variable-length units in a large corpus of motion capture data …

Inverse kinematics for motion-capture characters

D Epps, N Reid - US Patent 8,334,872, 2012‏ - Google Patents
(58) Field of Classification Search 345/420 placement, wherein the first displacement group
is deter mined from displacements between the first object model Surface and a second …

Re-ranking of web image search results using a graph algorithm

H Zitouni, S Sevil, D Ozkan… - 2008 19th International …, 2008‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a method to improve the results of image search engines on the Internet to
satisfy users who desire to see relevant images in the first few pages. The method re-ranks …

Automatic face cloning and animation using real-time facial feature tracking and speech acquisition

T Goto, S Kshirsagar… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2001‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe the components of the system used for real-time facial communication using a
cloned head. We begin with describing the automatic face cloning using two orthogonal …