Title
On the development of a talking head system based on the use of PDE-based parametic surfaces
Abstract
In this work we propose a talking head system based on animating facial expressions using a template face generated from a Partial Differential Equation (PDE). It uses a set of pre-configured curves (as boundary conditions for the chosen PDE) to calculate an internal template surface face. This surface is then used to associate various facial features with a given 3D face object. Motion retargeting is then used to transfer the deformations in these areas from the template to the target object. The procedure is continued until all the expressions in the database are calculated and transferred to the target 3D human face object. Additionally the system interacts with the user using an artificial intelligence (AI) chatterbot to generate response from a given text. Speech and facial animation are synchronized using the Microsoft Speech API, whereby the response from the AI bot is converted to speech.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-22336-5_4
Transactions on Computational Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
ai bot,facial animation,face object,head system,associate various facial feature,pde-based parametic surface,target object,facial expression,internal template surface face,template face,human face object
Boundary value problem,Computer vision,Computer graphics (images),Expression (mathematics),Computer science,Retargeting,Facial expression,Computer facial animation,Artificial intelligence,Surface face,Partial differential equation
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
12
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Athanasopoulos1154.56
Hassan Ugail224636.26
Gabriela González Castro3194.00