What perceptible information can be implemented in talking head animations

Author

Kuratate, Takaaki ; Masuda, Saeko ; Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric

Author_Institution

Inf. Sci. Div., ATR Int., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

430

Lastpage

435

Abstract

In this paper, we describe our talking head animation system. We scan and analyze high resolution static 3D faces from multiple subjects and extract deformation characteristics by principal component analysis. The extracted components have similarities across subjects and are used to reconstruct arbitrary facial postures for face animation driven by 3D kinematic data. We also build a simple lip model to estimate lip surfaces not visible to our 3D scanner. We present some results of 3D face analysis, including the effects of varying the number of principal components used to animate a talking head

Keywords

computer animation; face recognition; 3D face analysis; 3D kinematic data; arbitrary facial postures; deformation characteristics; face animation; high resolution static 3D faces; lip model; lip surfaces; multiple subjects; perceptible information; principal component analysis; talking head animations; Data mining; Facial animation; Home computing; Humans; Kinematics; Magnetic heads; Motion control; Muscles; Speech synthesis; Surface reconstruction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2001. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Bordeaux, Paris

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7222-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2001.981942

Filename

981942