Emotional face expression profiles supported by virtual human ontology

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 259-269

  Garcia Rojas A ^a   Vexo, F ^a   Thalmann, D ^b,c,d,e,f   Raouzaiou, A ^g,h   Karpouzis, K ^i,j   Kollias, S ^k,l,m   Moccozet, L ^n,o   Magnenat Thalmann, N ^f  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e Institute of Systems Science   (Singapore)

^f Institute of System Science ^*

^g Image Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory   (Greece)

^h TECHNICAL CHAMBER OF GREECE   (Greece)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS   (Greece)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^k NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

^l NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^m NRG Group

ⁿ MIRALab   (Switzerland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Emotion expression; MPEG 4 facial animation; Ontology

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION CREATION; EMOTION EXPRESSION; MPEG-4 FACIAL ANIMATION; ONTOLOGY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; QUERY LANGUAGES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33745869407     PISSN: 15464261     EISSN: 1546427X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cav.130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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