This paper presents a novel inner-outer lip facial animation
parameters (FAPs) interpolation within the framework of the MPEG-4
standard to allow for interpolation and realistic animation that can
be accomplished at very low bit rates. The proposed technique
applies Maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation to interpolate the
inner lip FAPs given outer lip FAPs, or vice versa. The vectors of
the lip FAPs along with the first order and the second order
temporal derivatives over frames and the conditional probabilities
of these vectors are modeled as Gaussian distributions. As a result,
the MAP estimate of the inner lip FAPs can be obtained as a linear
transformation of the outer lip FAPs, or vice versa. When data
obtained from the training process are stored in the receiver, the
inner (or outer) lip FAPs can be interpolated from the outer (or
inner) lip FAPs, which are all that needs to be transmitted. Thus,
without any increase in the amount of transmitted information, a
more realistic talking animation that provides more visual information for speech reading can be achieved. Based on our
experiments, the proposed technique reduces the Percentage Normalized Mean Error (PNME) error by half over the standard
technique.
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