TY - GEN
T1 - Digital clones and virtual celebrities facial tracking, gesture recognition and animation for the movie industry
AU - Takács, Barnabás
AU - Fromherz, Thomas
AU - Tice, Steve
AU - Metaxas, Dimitris
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - We describe a high performance facial tracking and animation solution, called the Digital Cloning System TM, specifically designed to meet the needs of the entertainment industry. Special and digital effects are now being used in most feature films, thus representing an important new application domain for facial and body tracking technologies. Virtual Celebrity's system consists of (i) a real-Time module responsible for previsualization of the tracked data on the face of an animated celebrity, and (ii) an off-line component that suitably meets the needs of high quality special effects and film production. We briefly review the state-of-Theart and present a comparative analysis of needs, methods, and existing solutions in film production vs. Internet and video telephony applications. Experimental results and demonstrations prove the effectiveness of our method.
AB - We describe a high performance facial tracking and animation solution, called the Digital Cloning System TM, specifically designed to meet the needs of the entertainment industry. Special and digital effects are now being used in most feature films, thus representing an important new application domain for facial and body tracking technologies. Virtual Celebrity's system consists of (i) a real-Time module responsible for previsualization of the tracked data on the face of an animated celebrity, and (ii) an off-line component that suitably meets the needs of high quality special effects and film production. We briefly review the state-of-Theart and present a comparative analysis of needs, methods, and existing solutions in film production vs. Internet and video telephony applications. Experimental results and demonstrations prove the effectiveness of our method.
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U2 - 10.1109/RATFG.1999.799241
DO - 10.1109/RATFG.1999.799241
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33644486134
T3 - Proceedings - International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems, RATFG-RTS 1999
SP - 169
EP - 176
BT - Proceedings - International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems, RATFG-RTS 1999
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 1999 International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems, RATFG-RTS 1999
Y2 - 26 September 1999 through 27 September 1999
ER -