Frowns, Smiles, Pouts
Wednesday, 11 August
8:30 - 10:15 am
Room 502A
Session Chair: Carolina Cruz-Neira, Iowa State University

Adaptable Setup for Performance-Driven Facial Animation An animation system that automates the most challenging tasks in setting up convincing facial animation: creation of facial actions in articulate form and motion during all intensities. Volker Helzle Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg volker.helzle (at) filmakademie.de Christoph Biehn Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Florian Linnner Freelance Artist Thomas Schlömer Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Constraint-Based Synthesis of Visual Speech A novel method for synthesis of visual speech movements based upon constrained optimization techniques. James D. Edge University of Sheffield j.edge (at) dcs.shef.ac.uk Steve Maddock University of Sheffield
Multilinear Models for Facial Synthesis A bilinear 3D face model with separate control of identity and expression. The model can be built from incomplete datasets of scanned faces and intuitively controled via tracking. Daniel Vlasic Massachusetts Institute of Technology drdaniel (at) mit.edu Matt Brand Hanspeter Pfister Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Jovan Popović Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Improved Automatic Caricature by Feature Normalization and Exaggeration An improved formalization of automatic caricature that extends a standard approach to correctly account for the population variance of facial features. Zhenyao Mo University of Southern California zmo (at) usc.edu J.P. Lewis Ulrich Neumann University of Southern California