Facial animation framework for the web and mobile platforms

Web3D Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 27-34

  Pandzic, Igor S ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Facial animation; Facial motion cloning; FBA; MPEG 4; Talking head; Virtual characters; Virtual humans; Visual text to speech; VRML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FACIAL ANIMATION FRAMEWORK; MOVING PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP;

ANIMATION;

EID: 0242625173     PISSN: 15529886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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