FaceEngine a 3D facial animation engine for real time applications

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, Web3D '01

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 15-22

  Breton, Gaspard ^a   Bouville, Christian ^a   Pelé, Danielle ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Avatars; Facial animation; Muscles based system; Talking head; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR BOARDS; ANIMATION ENGINE; AVATARS; FACIAL ANIMATION; FRAME RATE; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

MUSCLE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33646128827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/363361.363367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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