Personalized unit selection for an image-based facial animation system

2005 IEEE 7th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Weissenfeld, Axel ^b   Liu, Kang ^b   Klomp, Sven ^b   Ostermann, Joern ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facial animation; Image based rendering; LLE; PCA; Unit selection; Viterbi

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; AUDIO SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

FACIAL ANIMATION SYSTEM; IMAGE-BASED RENDERING; PHONETIC CONTEXT; UNIT SELECTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 42749101030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MMSP.2005.248608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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