Title :
Thai Speech-Driven Facial Animation
Author :
Chuensaichol, Thavesak ; Kanongchaiyos, Pizzanu ; Wutiwiwatchai, Chai
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok, Thailand
Abstract :
We consider the problem of making lip movement for an animated talking character, which consumes workload and cost during the animation development process. The main idea is to extract and capture a vise me from the video of a human talking and the phonemic scripts inside this video. After that, we generate a talking head animation video by synchronizing a time-stamped of each phoneme to concatenated visemes. The results of experimental tests are reported, indicating good accuracy.
Keywords :
computer animation; natural language processing; speech processing; video signal processing; Thai speech-driven facial animation; animated talking character; animation development process; talking head animation video; Accuracy; Acoustics; Adaptation models; Databases; Facial animation; Speech; Facial animation; Force-alignment; Lip-sync; Speech-driven animation; Thai speech; Visyllable database;
Conference_Titel :
Culture and Computing (Culture Computing), 2011 Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1593-8
DOI :
10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.30