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FRYDRYCH, M., DOBŠÍK, M.
Original Title
Toolkit for Animation of Finnish Talking Head
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Original Abstract
We have designed and implemented a toolkit for real-time animation of virtual 3D talking head, "Artificial Person". Synchronized auditory and visual speech are automatically produced from input text, which can be enriched by user definable commands to perform specific gestures, as for example head nodding or facial expressions. The toolkit is extensible through external configuration files, so new actions can be quickly added. We have configured the Artificial Person to display facial expressions and phoneme articulations. Modular design of the toolkit allows to easily replace parts of the system or to detach and run them on different computers.
Our aim was to create a tool that can be used to produce realistic facial animation for creating controllable stimuli in psychophysical and neurophysiological research on audio-visual perception of speech and emotions.
Keywords
talking head, artificial person, audiovisual speech synthesis, computer animation, facial animation
Authors
RIV year
2004
Released
4. 9. 2003
Publisher
International Speech Communication Association
Location
St Jorioz France
ISBN
1680-8908
Periodical
International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing
Number
9
State
French Republic
Pages from
199
Pages to
204
Pages count
6
URL
http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~dobsik/papers/dobsik/AVSP2003.pdf
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT14191, author="Michael {Frydrych} and Martin {Dobšík} and Jari {Kätsyri} and Mikko {Sams}", title="Toolkit for Animation of Finnish Talking Head", booktitle="ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Audio Visual Speech Processing (AVSP'03)", year="2003", journal="International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing", number="9", pages="199--204", publisher="International Speech Communication Association", address="St Jorioz France", issn="1680-8908", url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~dobsik/papers/dobsik/AVSP2003.pdf" }