Face to Virtual Face

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 870-882

  Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat ^a,b   Kalra, Prem ^a   Escher, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

3 D feature points; Autonomous virtual human; Clone; Facial deformation; Phoneme extraction; Real time facial animation; Virtual dialogue; Virtual face; Virtual human

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTONOMOUS VIRTUAL HUMANS; PHONEME EXTRACTION; REAL TIME FACIAL ANIMATION; VIRTUAL FACE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0032074259     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.664277     Document Type: Article

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