Duarte, RLP, El Rhalibi, A and Merabti, M (2015) Coarticulation and speech synchronization in MPEG-4 based facial animation. KYBERNETES, 43 (8). pp. 1165-1182. ISSN 0368-492X

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel coarticulation and speech synchronization framework compliant with MPEG-4 facial animation. The system we have developed uses MPEG-4 facial animation standard and other development to enable the creation, editing and playback of high resolution 3D models; MPEG-4 animation streams; and is compatible with well-known related systems such as Greta and Xface. It supports text-to-speech for dynamic speech synchronization. The framework enables real-time model simplification using quadric-based surfaces. Our coarticulation approach provides realistic and high performance lip-sync animation, based on Cohen-Massaro’s model of coarticulation adapted to MPEG-4 facial animation (FA) specification. The preliminary experiments show that the coarticulation technique we have developed gives overall good and promising results when compared to related techniques.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	Computer Science & Mathematics
Publisher:	EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED
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Date Deposited:	27 Nov 2014 11:02
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 14:47
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/209

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