Realistic facial animation system for interactive services

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2330-2333

  Liu, Kang ^a   Ostermann, Joern ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pareto optimization; Talking head; TTS (Text to Speech); Unit selection

Indexed keywords

3D MASKS; ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; AUDIOVISUAL ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ISSUES; E-COMMERCE; EVALUATION SYSTEM; FACE MODELS; FACIAL ANIMATION; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INTERACTIVE SERVICES; LARGE DATABASE; OBJECTIVE CRITERIA; OPTIMIZATION OF PARAMETERS; PARETO OPTIMIZATION; SPOKEN WORDS; SUBJECTIVE TESTS; TALKING HEADS; TEXT TO SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

ANIMATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867227937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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