3D facial animation from Chinese text

The reality and controllability of the facial animation are enhanced in our work by modeling mouth in a parametric approach described by 7 parameters: superior and anterior bend for upper and lower lip, width of the mouth, weight of radium of lips. These parameters were calculated by tracking only 4 points around the mouth from video, and the cost of computation is low. The coarticulation model of Cohen and Massaro was adopted to generate the natural key frames and the transitional frames. Considering the difference between Chinese and English, an algorithm was introduced to calculate the coefficients of dominance functions. Based on the muscle-based facial model and the parametric mouth model, the 3D head can talk vividly.