Lip tracking for MPEG-4 facial animation

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 293-298

  Wu, Zhilin ^a   Aleksic, P S ^a   Katsaggelos, A K ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EXTERNAL FORCE; FACIAL ANIMATION; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; MPEG-4 DECODERS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84963799333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMI.2002.1167009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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