The facial animation engine: Toward a high-level interface for the design of MPEG-4 compliant animated faces

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 277-289

  Lavagetto, Fabio ^a   Pockaj, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Facial modeling and animation; Graphic interfaces; Multimedia management; Synthetic video

Indexed keywords

DECODING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STANDARDS;

ANIMATED VIRTUAL FACES; HIGH LEVEL INTERFACE; MPEG 4; SYNTHETIC VIDEO;

ANIMATION;

EID: 0033097911     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.752095     Document Type: Article

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