Title
Tracking and Synthesizing Facial Motions with Dynamic Contours
Abstract
Many researchers have studied techniques related to the analysis and synthesis of human heads under motion with face deformations. These techniques can be used for defining low-rate image compression algorithms (model-based image coding), cinema technologies, video-phones, as well as for applications of virtual reality, etc. Such techniques need a real-time performance and a strong integration between the mechanisms of motion estimation and those of rendering and animation of the 3D synthetic head/face. In this paper, a complete and integrated system for tracking and synthesizing facial motions in real-time with low-cost architectures is presented. Facial deformations curves represented as spatiotemporal B-splines are used for tracking in order to model the main facial features. In addition, the system proposed is capable of adapting a generic 3D wire-frame model of a head/face to the face that must be tracked; therefore, the simulations of the face deformations are produced by using a realistic patterned face.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1006/rtim.1996.0008
Real-Time Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
real time,integrable system,virtual reality,image compression,motion estimation
Computer vision,Face hallucination,Virtual reality,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Image coding,Animation,Artificial intelligence,Motion estimation,Image compression algorithm,Rendering (computer graphics),Facial motion capture
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
2
1077-2014
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.95
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Nesi118625.96
R. Magnolfi220.95