Title :
High speed markerless monocular expression cloning
Author :
Xu, Zhan ; Miao, Zhenjiang ; Hao, Fei ; Liu, Ming ; Fang, Ying
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Sci., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Expression cloning is essential to motion capture. Currently, most methods to realize the idea require expensive equipment such as Cyberware and lot of manual work. This paper introduces a high speed monocular markerless expression cloning system. In Motion capture module, feature points in actor´s face are captured and tracked with computer vision methods. Tracking result of 16 feature points is encouraging after only a few steps of manual work. In the Expression driven model, we well design a template model, then additional models can be loaded without initialization. Only a camera and a common PC is needed in our system, on condition that source video is taken under normal lightning environment, synchronous realistic target animation can be acquired.
Keywords :
computer vision; image motion analysis; Cyberware; computer vision; high speed markerless monocular expression cloning; high speed monocular markerless expression cloning system; motion capture; Cameras; Cloning; Computer vision; Eyes; Face detection; Facial animation; Information science; Motion analysis; Mouth; Tracking; Markerless; SNAKE; hough transform; morph; motion capture; sphincter muscle model;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 2009. PacRim 2009. IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4560-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4561-5
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.2009.5291316