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Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression

In this decade of Information Technology, Talking Heads become more and more common as parts of modern computer-user interface. A talking head can add entertainment value to a program and make it more engaging. While Talking Heads with multiple expressions, it can let listeners to identify speaker&#...

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Main Authors: Tan, Tian-Swee, Salleh, Sh-Hussain, Chew, Kim-Mey, Lim, Sheau-Chyi
Format: Book Section
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2008
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RZ Other systems of medicine
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12721/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580697
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spelling my.utm.127212011-06-27T01:59:19Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12721/ Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression Tan, Tian-Swee Salleh, Sh-Hussain Chew, Kim-Mey Lim, Sheau-Chyi RZ Other systems of medicine In this decade of Information Technology, Talking Heads become more and more common as parts of modern computer-user interface. A talking head can add entertainment value to a program and make it more engaging. While Talking Heads with multiple expressions, it can let listeners to identify speaker's emotional state easily. But, generating animated talking heads that look like real people is a very challenging task, and so far all synthesized heads are still far from reaching this goal. Hence, the purpose of this work is to construct a natural, photo-realistic in appearance of Talking Heads which exhibit proper articulation by the lips that are synchronized with the speech. Moreover, realistic head movements, as well as emotional expressions that harmonize with the spoken text also added. And these Talking Heads are driven by English and Malay text. Photogram Metrics technique is applied to a model with photo-realistic face, while Sample-Based approach is implemented in facial movements of the Talking Heads to bypass the complexities linked to analytical modeling. Then, the Talking Heads will form the Audio-Visual Text-to-Speech Synthesis (AV-TTS) system and transformed into modules so that can be exported to any application. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2008 Book Section PeerReviewed Tan, Tian-Swee and Salleh, Sh-Hussain and Chew, Kim-Mey and Lim, Sheau-Chyi (2008) Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering 2008, ICCCE08: Global Links for Human Development. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, 711 -715. ISBN 978-142441692-9 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580697 doi:10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580697
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topic RZ Other systems of medicine
spellingShingle RZ Other systems of medicine
Tan, Tian-Swee
Salleh, Sh-Hussain
Chew, Kim-Mey
Lim, Sheau-Chyi
Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression
description In this decade of Information Technology, Talking Heads become more and more common as parts of modern computer-user interface. A talking head can add entertainment value to a program and make it more engaging. While Talking Heads with multiple expressions, it can let listeners to identify speaker's emotional state easily. But, generating animated talking heads that look like real people is a very challenging task, and so far all synthesized heads are still far from reaching this goal. Hence, the purpose of this work is to construct a natural, photo-realistic in appearance of Talking Heads which exhibit proper articulation by the lips that are synchronized with the speech. Moreover, realistic head movements, as well as emotional expressions that harmonize with the spoken text also added. And these Talking Heads are driven by English and Malay text. Photogram Metrics technique is applied to a model with photo-realistic face, while Sample-Based approach is implemented in facial movements of the Talking Heads to bypass the complexities linked to analytical modeling. Then, the Talking Heads will form the Audio-Visual Text-to-Speech Synthesis (AV-TTS) system and transformed into modules so that can be exported to any application.
format Book Section
author Tan, Tian-Swee
Salleh, Sh-Hussain
Chew, Kim-Mey
Lim, Sheau-Chyi
author_facet Tan, Tian-Swee
Salleh, Sh-Hussain
Chew, Kim-Mey
Lim, Sheau-Chyi
author_sort Tan, Tian-Swee
title Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression
title_short Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression
title_full Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression
title_fullStr Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression
title_full_unstemmed Photo-realistic text-driven Malay talking head with multiple expression
title_sort photo-realistic text-driven malay talking head with multiple expression
publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
publishDate 2008
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12721/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580697
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