TY - GEN
T1 - EAVA
T2 - 2008 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV
AU - Tang, Hao
AU - Fu, Yun
AU - Tu, Jilin
AU - Huang, Thomas S.
AU - Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Emotive audio-visual avatars have the potential of significantly improving the quality of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In this paper, the various technical approaches of a novel framework leading to a text-driven 3D Emotive Audio-Visual Avatar (EAVA) are proposed. Primary work is focused on 3D face modeling, realistic emotional facial expression animation, emotive speech synthesis, and the co-articulation of speech gestures (i.e., lip movements due to speech production) and facial expressions. Experimental results clearly indicate that a certain degree of naturalness and expressiveness has been achieved by EAVA in both audio and visual aspects. Promising potential improvements can be expected by incorporating various data-driven statistical learning models into the framework.
AB - Emotive audio-visual avatars have the potential of significantly improving the quality of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In this paper, the various technical approaches of a novel framework leading to a text-driven 3D Emotive Audio-Visual Avatar (EAVA) are proposed. Primary work is focused on 3D face modeling, realistic emotional facial expression animation, emotive speech synthesis, and the co-articulation of speech gestures (i.e., lip movements due to speech production) and facial expressions. Experimental results clearly indicate that a certain degree of naturalness and expressiveness has been achieved by EAVA in both audio and visual aspects. Promising potential improvements can be expected by incorporating various data-driven statistical learning models into the framework.
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U2 - 10.1109/WACV.2008.4544003
DO - 10.1109/WACV.2008.4544003
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50849136882
SN - 1424419131
SN - 9781424419135
T3 - 2008 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV
BT - 2008 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV
Y2 - 7 January 2008 through 9 January 2008
ER -