An Approach for Creating and Blending Synthetic Facial Expressions of Emotion

  • Authors:
  • Meeri Mäkäräinen;Tapio Takala

  • Affiliations:
  • Helsinki University of Technology, Finland FIN-02015;Helsinki University of Technology, Finland FIN-02015

  • Venue:
  • IVA '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce a physically-based facial animation system for natural-looking emotional expressions. Our system enables creation of simple facial expressions using Facial Action Coding System (FACS) and complex facial expressions by blending existing expressions. We propose a method for blending facial actions, based on a parameterization that combines elements of FACS and MPEG-4 standard. We explore the complex expression space by examining the blends of basic emotions produced with our model.