Intelligent expression blending for performance driven facial animation

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 578-584

  Khanam, Assia ^a   Mufti, Muid ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Context; Expression blending; Expression enhancement; Facial animation; Facial expressions; Fuzzy; MPEG 4; PDFA

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FACE RECOGNITION; FUZZY RULES; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOTION PICTURES;

EXPRESSION BLENDING; EXPRESSION ENHANCEMENT; FACE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; PERFORMANCE-DRIVEN FACIAL ANIMATION;

ANIMATION;

EID: 34547687926     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2007.381732     Document Type: Article

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