3D game engine for real-time facial animation

  • Authors:
  • Hye Won Pyun

  • Affiliations:
  • Broadcasting Technical Research Institute, Korean Broadcasting System, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • AI'05 Proceedings of the 18th Australian Joint conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

For 3D game engine, we present facial animation method based on multiple face models. In order to overcome the heavy burden of geometry data management on game engine, we employ wire curve [22] which is a simple, intuitive interface to local deformation of complex geometric objects such as human face models. Given multiple face models, we first extract wire curves and deformation parameters from a facial model. In runtime, given an input of expression parameters, only the extracted wire curves are blended to create new expression. Then, the blended output of the wire curves is applied to the reference model of neutral expression. The resulting animation preserves the characteristic features of the multiple face models as well real-time performance. Our method promotes local deformation and non-uniform blending by making use of the power of wire curve.