DocumentCode :
3249329
Title :
Digital clones and virtual celebrities: facial tracking, gesture recognition and animation for the movie industry
Author :
Takács, Barnabás ; Fromherz, Thomas ; Tice, Steve ; Metaxas, Dimitris
Author_Institution :
Virtual Celebrity Productions, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fYear :
1999
fDate :
1999
Firstpage :
169
Lastpage :
176
Abstract :
We describe a high performance facial tracking and animation solution, called the Digital Cloning SystemTM specifically designed to meet the needs of the entertainment industry. Special and digital effects are now being used in most feature films thus representing an important new application domain for facial and body tracking technologies. Virtual Celebrity´s system consists of: a real-time module responsible for pre-visualization of the tracked data on the face of an animated celebrity; and an off-line component that suitably meets the needs of high quality special effects and film production. We briefly review the state-of-the-art and present a comparative analysis of needs, methods, and existing solutions in film production vs. Internet and video telephony applications. Experimental results and demonstrations prove the effectiveness of our method
Keywords :
Internet; computer animation; entertainment; face recognition; gesture recognition; real-time systems; tracking; videotelephony; Digital Cloning System; Internet; animation; body tracking; entertainment industry; experimental results; facial tracking; feature films; film production; gesture recognition; movie industry; real-time; video telephony; virtual celebrities; Cloning; Distributed control; Face recognition; Facial animation; Facial features; Internet; Motion analysis; Production systems; Space technology; Tracking;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems, 1999. Proceedings. International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Corfu
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0378-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/RATFG.1999.799241
Filename :
799241
Link To Document :
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