Facial expression synthesis based on natural voice for virtual face-to-face communication with machine

  • Authors:
  • S. Morishima;H. Harashima

  • Affiliations:
  • Fac. of Eng., Seikei Univ., Tokyo, Japan;-

  • Venue:
  • VRAIS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Basic research to a virtual face-to-face communication environment between an operator and a machine is presented. In this system, a human natural face appears on the display of machine and can talk to a operator with natural voice and natural face expressions. A face expression synthesis scheme driven by natural voice is presented. Voice includes not only linguistic information but also emotional features. An expression control scheme driven by both features is proposed. A human head with a 3-D wire frame model is expressed. The surface model is generated by texture mapping with 2-D real image. All the motions and expressions are synthesized and controlled automatically by the movement of some feature points on the model.