Video Rewrite uses existing footage to create automatically new video of a person mouthing
words that she did not speak in the original footage. This technique is useful in movie …

We introduce a method for predicting a control signal from another related signal, and apply
it to voice puppetry: Generating full facial animation from expressive information in an audio …

This paper presents an overview of some of the synthetic visual objects supported by MPEG-
4 version-1, namely animated faces and animated arbitrary 2D uniform and Delaunay …

Speech intelligibility can be improved by adding lip images to the speech signal. Thus lip
movement synthesis plays an important role to realize a natural human-like face of computer …

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

Presents the latest results of a research activity oriented to the development of a multimedia
telephone for hard of hearing persons, based on the conversion of speech into graphic …

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 …

The paper describes a system that generates photo-realistic video animations of talking
heads. First the system derives head models from existing video footage using image …

During human communication, every spoken message is intrinsically modulated within
different verbal and nonverbal cues that are externalized through various aspects of speech …

BACKGROUND The face is the most important part of the human body for interpersonal
communication, emotional expression, and most Other forms of social interaction. The face …