MPEG-4 Facial Animation: The Standard, Implementation And Applications

Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

MPEG-4 Facial Animation: The Standard, Implementation And Applications

Editor(s): Igor S. Pandzic, Robert Forchheimer

Published Online: 17 JAN 2003

Print ISBN: 9780470844656

Online ISBN: 9780470854624

DOI: 10.1002/0470854626

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  • Provides several examples of applications using the MPEG-4 Facial Animation standard, including video and speech analysis.
  • Covers the implementation of the standard on both the encoding and decoding side.
  • Contributors includes individuals instrumental in the standardization process.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxviii)

  2. Part 1: Background

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      Part Introduction (page 1)

    2. Chapter 1

      The Origins of the MPEG-4 Facial Animation Standard (pages 3–13)

      Igor S. Pandzic and Robert Forchheimer

  3. Part 2: The Standard

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      Part Introduction (page 15)

    2. Chapter 2

      Face Animation in MPEG-4 (pages 17–55)

      Jörn Ostermann

    3. Chapter 3

      MPEG-4 Face Animation Conformance (pages 57–61)

      Dr. Eric Petajan

  4. Part 3: Implementations

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      Part Introduction (page 63)

    2. Chapter 4

      MPEG-4 Facial Animation Framework for the Web and Mobile Applications (pages 65–79)

      Igor S. Pandzic

    3. Chapter 5

      The Facial Animation Engine (pages 81–101)

      Fabio Lavagetto and Roberto Pockaj

    4. Chapter 6

      Extracting MPEG-4 FAPs from Video (pages 103–113)

      Jörgen Ahlberg

    5. Chapter 7

      Real-Time Speech-Driven Face Animation (pages 115–124)

      Pengyu Hong, Zhen Wen and Thomas S. Huang

    6. Chapter 8

      Visual Text-to-Speech (pages 125–140)

      Catherine Pelachaud

    7. Chapter 9

      Emotion Recognition and Synthesis Based on MPEG-4 FAPs (pages 141–167)

      Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Amaryllis Raouzaiou, Stefanos Kollias, Roddy Cowie and Ellen Douglas-Cowie

    8. Chapter 10

      The InterFace Software Platform for Interactive Virtual Characters (pages 169–183)

      Igor S. Pandzic, Michele Cannella, Franck Davoine, Robert Forchheimer, Fabio Lavagetto, Haibo Li, Andrew Marriott, Sotiris Malassiotis, Montse Pardas, Roberto Pockaj and Gael Sannier

  5. Part 4: Applications

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      Part Introduction (page 185)

    2. Chapter 11

      Model-Based Coding: The Complete System (pages 187–218)

      Haibo Li and Robert Forchheimer

    3. Chapter 12

      A Facial Animation Case Study for HCI: The VHML-Based Mentor System (pages 219–239)

      Andrew Marriott

    4. Chapter 13

      PlayMail – Put Words into Other People's Mouth (pages 241–251)

      Jörn Ostermann

    5. Chapter 14

      E-Cogent: An Electronic Convincing aGENT (pages 253–264)

      Jörn Ostermann

    6. Chapter 15

      alterEGO: Video Analysis for Facial Animation (pages 265–271)

      Dr. Eric Petajan

    7. Chapter 16

      EPTAMEDIA: Virtual Guides and Other Applications (pages 273–285)

      Fabio Lavagetto and Roberto Pockaj

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      Appendix 1: Evaluating MPEG-4 Facial Animation Players (pages 287–291)

      Jörgen Ahlberg, Igor S. Pandzic and Liwen You

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      Appendix 2: Web Resources (page 293)

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      Index (pages 295–299)

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