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Emotional Avatars: Appearance Augmentation and Animation based on Facial Expression Analysis |
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PP: 461-469 |
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Author(s) |
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Taehoon Cho,
Jin-Ho Choi,
Hyeon-Joong Kim,
Soo-Mi Choi,
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Abstract |
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| We propose an emotional facial avatar that portrays the user’s facial expressions with an emotional emphasis, while
achieving visual and behavioral realism. This is achieved by unifying automatic analysis of facial expressions and animation of realistic
3D faces with details such as facial hair and hairstyles. To augment facial appearance according to the user’s emotions, we use emotional
templates representing typical emotions in an artistic way, which can be easily combined with the skin texture of the 3D face at runtime.
Hence, our interface gives the user vision-based control over facial animation of the emotional avatar, easily changing its moods. |
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