In recent years, statistically motivated approaches for the registration and tracking of non-rigid objects, such as the Active Appearance Model (AAM), have become very popular. A ...
Within the framework of the project NICE (Natural Interactive Communication for Edutainment) [2], we have been developing an educational and entertaining computer game that allows...
Andrea Corradini, Manish Mehta, Niels Ole Bernsen,...
Abstract—In this paper, we present the humanoid communication robot Fritz. Our robot communicates with people in an intuitive, multimodal way. Fritz uses speech, facial expressio...
Maren Bennewitz, Felix Faber, Dominik Joho, Sven B...
We demonstrate a novel method for producing a synthetic talking head. The method is based on earlier work in which the behaviour of a synthetic individual is generated by referenc...
—This paper describes a morphing-based audio driven facial animation system. Based on an incoming audio stream, a face image is animated with full lip synchronization and synthes...
Tanveer A. Faruquie, Chalapathy Neti, Nitendra Raj...