Implementation of Speaking SoftMan in Game

Author

Huang, Xiangyang ; Yin, Yixin ; Zeng, Guangping ; Tu, Xuyan

Author_Institution

Beijing Univ. of Sci. & Technol.

Volume

3

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1403

Lastpage

1405

Abstract

Unlike traditional NPCs (nonplayer characters) which are just "smart" programs, this thesis considers SoftMans as NPC model, which live in a simulated world and have a synthetic body with autonomous behaviors. Based on this novel idea, we research text-driven lip motion synthesis system for SoftMan in game. First, we divide Chinese phonemes into 11 basic static visemes in which whole 3D virtual face is considered. Secondly, text scripts are divided into phoneme sequences. Thirdly, proper intermediate animation frames are created by morphing technique. Finally, those frames are rendered by vertex shader technique

Keywords

computer animation; computer games; image morphing; mobile agents; natural languages; speech synthesis; Chinese phonemes; animation frames; computer games; morphing technique; nonplayer characters model; speaking SoftMan; text scripts; text-driven lip motion synthesis; Artificial intelligence; Data mining; Deformable models; Electronic mail; Facial animation; Mouth; Personal communication networks; Shape; Tongue; Toy industry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Networks and Brain, 2005. ICNN&B '05. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9422-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNNB.2005.1614893

Filename

1614893