Morphable 3D facial animation based on thin plate splines

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Erdoğdu, Aysu
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The aim of this study is to present a novel three dimensional (3D) facial animation method for morphing emotions and facial expressions from one face model to another. For this purpose, smooth and realistic face models were animated with thin plate splines (TPS). Neutral face models were animated and compared with the actual expressive face models. Neutral and expressive face models were obtained from subjects via a 3D face scanner. The face models were preprocessed for pose and size normalization. Then muscle and wrinkle control points were located to the source face with neutral expression according to the human anatomy. Facial Action Coding System (FACS) was used to determine the control points and the face regions in the underlying model. The final positions of the control points after a facial expression were received from the expressive scan data of the source face. Afterwards control points were transferred to the target face using the facial landmarks and TPS as the morphing function. Finally, the neutral target face was animated with control points by TPS. In order to visualize the method, face scans with expressions composed of a selected subset of action units found in Bosphorus Database were used. Five lower-face and three-upper face action units are simulated during this study. For experimental results, the facial expressions were created on the 3D neutral face scan data of a human subject and the synthetic faces were compared to the subject’s actual 3D scan data with the same facial expressions taken from the dataset.
Electrical engineering.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19609
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Erdoğdu, “Morphable 3D facial animation based on thin plate splines,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.
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