Virtual Humans are becoming more and more popular and used in many applications such
as the entertainment industry (in both film and games) and medical applications. This …

A real-time speech-driven synthetic talking face provides an effective multimodal
communication interface in distributed collaboration environments. Nonverbal gestures such …

Intelligent virtual characters has been subject to exponential growth in the last decades and
they are utilized in many application areas such as education, training, human-computer …

Visual and auditory modalities are two of the most commonly used media in interactions
between humans. The authors describe a system to continuously monitor the user's voice …

This paper presents an initial implementation and evaluation of a system that synthesizes
visualspeech directly from the acoustic waveform. Anartificial neural network (ANN) was …

This thesis presents work in the area of computer animated talking heads. A system for
multimodal speech synthesis has been developed, capable of generating audiovisual …

Talking head generation aims to synthesize a photo‐realistic speaking video with accurate
lip motion. While this field has attracted more attention in recent audio‐visual researches …

This invention is directed toward a system and method for lip Synchronization. More
specifically, this invention is directed towards a system and method for generating a …

The audio/visual map** problem of speech-driven facial animation has intrigued
researchers for years. Recent research efforts have demonstrated that hidden Markov model …

One of the most interesting research lines about avatars is the design and the
implementation of a synthetic behaviour able to drive avatar's actions according to an …