Facial motion cloning with radial basis functions in MPEG-4 FBA

Graphical Models

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 106-118

  Fratarcangeli, Marco ^a,b   Schaerf, Marco ^a   Forchheimer, Robert ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b LINKÖPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Facial animation; Morph targets; MPEG 4 FBA; Virtual characters; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FUNCTIONS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

FACIAL BODY ANIMATION (FBA); FACIAL MOTION CLONING (FMC); MORPH TARGETS; VIRTUAL CHARACTERS; VIRTUAL FACES; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33846645953     PISSN: 15240703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gmod.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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