MPEG–4 Facial Animation – The Standard, Implementation and Application

IS Pandzic (Autor)

Software / Digital Media

328 Seiten

2003
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
978-0-470-85462-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The Moving Pictures Expert Group recently produced the MPEG-4 International Standard. One of the more revolutionary parts of the new standard is the Face and Body Animation, or FBA: the specification for efficient coding of shape and animation of human faces and bodies. This book concentrates on the animation of faces.

Autor

Igor S. Pandzic is the editor of MPEG-4 Facial Animation: The Standard, Implementation and Applications, published by Wiley. Robert Forchheimer is the editor of MPEG-4 Facial Animation: The Standard, Implementation and Applications, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

List of Contributors. Author Biographies. Foreword. Preface. PART 1: BACKGROUND. The Origins of the MPEG-4 Facial Animation Standard (Igor S. Pandzic and Robert Forchheimer). PART 2: THE STANDARD. Face Animation in MPEG-4 (Jorn Ostermann). MPEG-4 Face Animation Conformance (Eric Petajan). PART 3: IMPLEMENTATIONS. MPEG-4 Facial Animation Framework for the Web and Mobile Applications (Igor S. Pandzic). The Facial Animation Engine (Fabio Lavagetto and Roberto Pockaj). Extracting MPEG-4 FAPS from Video (Jorgen Ahlberg). Real-Time Speech-Driven Face Animation (Pengyu Hong, Zhen Wen and Thomas S. Huang). Visual Text-to-Speech (Catherine Pelachaud). Emotion Recognition and Synthesis Based on MPEG-4 FAPs (Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Amaryllis Raouzaiou, Stefanos Kollias, Roddy Cowie and Ellen Douglas-Cowie). The InterFace Software Platform for Interactive Virtual Characters (Igor S. Pandzic, Michele Cannella, Franck Davoine, Robert Forchheimer, Fabio Lavagetto, Haibo Li, Andrew Marriott, Sotiris Malassiotis, Montse Pardas, Roberto Pockaj and Gael Sannier). PART 4: APPLICATIONS. Model-based Coding: The Complete System (Haibo Li and Robert Forchheimer). A Facial Animation Case Study for HCI: The VHML-Based Mentor System (Andrew Marriott). PlayMail ? Put Words into Other People?s Mouth (Jorn Ostermann). E-Cogent: An Electronic Convincing aGENT (Jorn Ostermann). alterEGO: Video Analysis for Facial Animation (Eric Petajan). EPTAMEDIA: Virtual Guides and Other Applications (Fabio Lavagetto and Roberto Pockaj). Appendix 1: Evaluating MPEG-4 Facial Animation Players (Jorgen Ahlberg, Igor S. Pandzic and Liwen You). Appendix 2: Web Resources. Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2003
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 179 x 249 mm
• Gewicht: 760 g
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• ISBN-10: 0-470-85462-6 / 0470854626
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-85462-4 / 9780470854624
• Zustand: Neuware