Facial Animation in MPEG-4

The MPEG-4 standard specifies the part of Synthetic and Natural Hybrid Coding. In particular, definition and animation of human faces and bodies are also defined. For human faces, the Facial Definition Parameters (FDPs) and the Facial Animation Parameters (FAPs) are defined for representation and animation on any facial model. In this research, an efficient approach to synthesize realistic facial expressions from photographs and FAPs on a 2 1/2-D head model is presented. Also, combinations of expression FAPs with different expression textures provide the ability to synthesize more facial expressions. Integrating the approach into a deformed head model with viseme FAPs, a personalized talking head with texture mapping is also available.

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