“Lips-sync 3D speech animation” by Huang, Chen, Chuang and Guan
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- Lips-sync 3D speech animation
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Abstract:
Facial animation is traditionally considered as an important but tedious task for many applications.Recently the demand for lips-syncs animation is increasing, but there seems few fast and easy generation methods.In this talk, a system to synthesize lips-syncs speech animation given a novel utterance is presented. Our system uses a nonlinear blend-shape method and derives key-shapes using a novel automatic clustering algorithm. Finally a Gaussian-phoneme model is used to predict the proper motion dynamic that can be used for synthesizing a new speech animation.
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