LUCIA a new Italian talking-head based on a modified Cohen-Massaro?s labial coarticulation model

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2269-2272

  Cosi, Piero ^a   Fusaro, Andrea ^a   Tisato, Graziano ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

COARTICULATION MODELING; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; FACIAL ANIMATION; MINIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; MPEG-4 STANDARD; OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; TALKING HEADS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009210528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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