Facile Face Animation toward Computer-Mediated Communication

To meet requirements of computer-mediated communication,an image based facile face animation approach is presented.Based on the two face images of the same person at front and half-profile view and an MPEG4 3D generic face model,we estimate the poses of the face at these two images and establish their 2D mesh models.Multiple views of the same face can be synthesized by image interpolation and warping,meanwhile occlusion problems are solved reasonably.Lip motion and facial expression are synthesized by projecting the FAP parameters of the MPEG4 3D model onto the current view.Our approach does not need to establish the 3D model of the individual face nor perform camera calibration.Experimental results demonstrate its efficiency,universality across platforms and acceptable image quality.