In this paper, we present our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D talking agents, namely Xface. It relies on MPEG-4 Face Animation (FA) standard. The toolk...
SynthesizedTextures represent continuous-tone images with a small set of vectors and color profiles. This representation is not only efficient in terms of compression ratio but al...
In order to enable face animation on the Internet using high quality synthetic speech, the Text-to-Speech (TTS) servers need to be implemented on network-based servers and shared ...
Traditional media, such as text, image, audio and video, have long been the main media resources and granted full support of standard desktop tools and applications. Interactive r...
Beilu Shao, Laureano Moro Velazquez, Nicolas Scari...
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 ...