Evaluation of a Talking Head based on Appearance Models

AVSP 2003 - International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 187-192

  Theobald, Barry John ^a   Bangham, J Andrew ^a   Matthews, Iain ^b   Cawley, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE MODELS; CODEBOOKS; GENERATIVE MODEL; HUMAN FACES; PHONETICALLY BALANCED; SPEECH CORPORA; TALKING HEADS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 85009062423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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