Rapid modeling of animated faces from video

1 September 2001

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation

Vol. 12 (4) , 227-240
https://doi.org/10.1002/vis.260

Abstract

Generating realistic 3D human face models and facial animations has been a persistent challenge in computer graphics. We have developed a system that constructs textured 3Dface models from videos with minimal user interaction. Our system takes images andvideo sequences of a face with an ordinary video camera. After five manual clicks ontwo images to tell the system where the eye corners, nose top and mouth corners are, thesystem automatically generates a realistic looking 3D human head model and the constructed model can be animated immediately. A user with a PC and an ordinary camera can use our system to generate his/her face model in a few minutes. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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