Facial Animation Framework for the web and mobile platforms

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, Web3D '02

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 27-34

  Pandzic, Igor S ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Facial Animation; Facial motion cloning; FBA; MPEG 4; Talking head; Virtual characters; Virtual humans; Visual text to speech; VRML

Indexed keywords

FACIAL ANIMATION; FACIAL MOTIONS; TALKING HEADS; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL HUMANS; VISUAL TEXT TO SPEECH;

ANIMATION; BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; CLONING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE PHONES; PASSENGER CARS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 77950578778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/504502.504507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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