Publication: Estimation and analysis of facial animation parameter patterns
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We propose a framework for estimation and analysis of temporal facial expression patterns of a speaker. ne proposed system aims to learn personalized elementary dynamic facial expression patterns for a particular speaker. We use head-and-shoulder stereo video sequences to track lip, eye, eyebrow, and eyelid motion of a speaker in 3D. MPEG-4 Facial Definition Parameters (FDPs) are used as the feature set, and temporal facial expression patterns are represented by the MPEG-4 Facial Animation Parameters (FAPs). We perform Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based unsupervised temporal segmentation of upper and lower facial expression features separately to determine recurrent elementary facial expression patterns for a particular speaker. These facial expression patterns coded by FAP sequences, which may not be tied with prespecified emotions, can be used for personalized emotion estimation and synthesis of a speaker. Experimental results are presented.
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Engineering, Electrical and electronic engineering, Imaging science, Photographic technology
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2007 Ieee International Conference On Image Processing, Vols 1-7