Assembling an expressive facial animation system

Sandbox Symposium 2007 - ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium, Sandbox '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 21-26

  Wang, Alice ^b   Emmi, Michael ^a   Faloutsos, Petros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

expressive visual speech; facial animation; text to visual speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; FACE MODELING; FACIAL ANIMATION; HIGH QUALITY; OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; VISUAL SPEECH; VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 58149089368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1274940.1274947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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