MPEG-4 Facial Animation (eBook)

Igor S. Pandzic is the editor of MPEG-4 Facial Animation: The Standard, Implementation and Applications, published by Wiley. Robert Forchheimer is the editor of MPEG-4 Facial Animation: The Standard, Implementation and Applications, published by Wiley.

List of Contributors.

Author Biographies.

Foreword.

Preface.

PART 1: BACKGROUND.

The Origins of the MPEG-4 Facial Animation Standard (Igor S.
Pandzic and Robert Forchheimer).

PART 2: THE STANDARD.

Face Animation in MPEG-4 (Jörn Ostermann).

MPEG-4 Face Animation Conformance (Eric Petajan).

PART 3: IMPLEMENTATIONS.

MPEG-4 Facial Animation Framework for the Web and Mobile
Applications (Igor S. Pandzic).

The Facial Animation Engine (Fabio Lavagetto and Roberto
Pockaj).

Extracting MPEG-4 FAPS from Video (Jörgen Ahlberg).

Real-Time Speech-Driven Face Animation (Pengyu Hong, Zhen Wen
and Thomas S. Huang).

Visual Text-to-Speech (Catherine Pelachaud).

Emotion Recognition and Synthesis Based on MPEG-4 FAPs (Nicolas
Tsapatsoulis, Amaryllis Raouzaiou, Stefanos Kollias, Roddy Cowie
and Ellen Douglas-Cowie).

The InterFace Software Platform for Interactive Virtual
Characters (Igor S. Pandzic, Michele Cannella, Franck Davoine,
Robert Forchheimer, Fabio Lavagetto, Haibo Li, Andrew Marriott,
Sotiris Malassiotis, Montse Pardas, Roberto Pockaj and Gael
Sannier).

PART 4: APPLICATIONS.

Model-based Coding: The Complete System (Haibo Li and Robert
Forchheimer).

A Facial Animation Case Study for HCI: The VHML-Based Mentor
System (Andrew Marriott).

PlayMail ? Put Words into Other People?s Mouth (Jörn
Ostermann).

E-Cogent: An Electronic Convincing aGENT (Jörn
Ostermann).

alterEGO: Video Analysis for Facial Animation (Eric
Petajan).

EPTAMEDIA: Virtual Guides and Other Applications (Fabio
Lavagetto and Roberto Pockaj).

Appendix 1: Evaluating MPEG-4 Facial Animation Players
(Jörgen Ahlberg, Igor S. Pandzic and Liwen You).

Appendix 2: Web Resources.

Index.