Real-time MPEG-4 facial animation with 3D scalable meshes

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 743-757

  Bonamico, C ^a   Costa, M ^a   Lavagetto, F ^a   Pockaj, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ITERATIVE METHODS; SEMANTICS;

FACIAL ANIMATION;

ANIMATION;

EID: 0036800434     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-5965(02)00075-9     Document Type: Article

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