Digital clones and virtual celebrities facial tracking, gesture recognition and animation for the movie industry

Proceedings - International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems, RATFG-RTS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 169-176

  Takács, Barnabás ^a   Fromherz, Thomas ^a   Tice, Steve ^c   Metaxas, Dimitris ^b  

^a Virtual Celebrity Productions   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Quantum Works Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CLONING; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTION PICTURES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DIGITAL CLONING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL EFFECTS; ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY; FACIAL TRACKING; NEW APPLICATIONS; PREVISUALIZATION; VIDEO TELEPHONY;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33644486134     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RATFG.1999.799241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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