Methods and systems for animating facial features and methods and systems for expression transformation
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1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by a computing device, perform a facial expression transformation method comprising:
- defining a code book containing data defining a first set of facial expressions of a first person;
providing data defining a second set of facial expressions, the second set of facial expressions providing a training set of expressions of a second person who is different from the first person;
deriving a transformation function from the training set of expressions and corresponding expressions from the first set of expressions; and
applying the transformation function to the first set of expressions to provide a synthetic set of expressions.
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Abstract
The illustrated and described embodiments describe techniques for capturing data that describes 3-dimensional (3-D) aspects of a face, transforming facial motion from one individual to another in a realistic manner, and modeling skin reflectance.
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1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by a computing device, perform a facial expression transformation method comprising:
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defining a code book containing data defining a first set of facial expressions of a first person; providing data defining a second set of facial expressions, the second set of facial expressions providing a training set of expressions of a second person who is different from the first person; deriving a transformation function from the training set of expressions and corresponding expressions from the first set of expressions; and applying the transformation function to the first set of expressions to provide a synthetic set of expressions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computing system comprising:
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one or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to; operate on a training set of expressions from one person and corresponding expressions from a code book of another person to compute a linear transformation function from the training set and their corresponding expressions; and apply the transformation function to a plurality of expressions from the code book to provide a synthetic set of expressions; and one or more processors configured to execute said computer-readable instructions. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A facial expression transformation system comprising:
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a code book embodied on a computer-readable medium, the code book containing data defining a first set of facial expressions of a first person; data embodied on a computer-readable medium, the data defining a second set of facial expressions, the second set of facial expressions providing a training set of expressions of a second person who is different from the first person; and one or more computer-readable media embodying instructions that implement a transformation processor configured to derive a transformation function from the training set of expressions and corresponding expressions from the first set of expressions. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29)
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