A common approach to producing visual speech is to interpolate the parameters describing a sequence of mouth shapes, known as visemes, where visemes are the visual counterpart of phonemes. A single viseme typically represents ...

This paper presents a novel approach to creating 3D facial animation using a sketch-based interface where the animation is generated by interpolating a sequence of sketched key poses. The user does not need any knowledge ...

Pedestrian simulations have many uses, from pedestrian planning for architecture design through to games and entertainment. However, it is still challenging to efficiently author such simulations, especially for non-technical ...

We present a method for extracting skull and face models from MRI datasets and show how the resulting dataset is used in a craniofacial reconstruction (CFR) system. Datasets for 60 individuals are used to produce a database ...

The basic methods of interaction in strategy games with regards to controlling groups of units has largely remained the same since the first strategy games were released. Although the control systems in games today are ...

This paper introduces a three-dimensional virtual head for use in speech tutoring applications. The system achieves audiovisual speech synthesis using viseme-driven animation and a coarticulation model, to automatically ...

Creating faces is important in a number of application areas. Faces can be constructed using commercial modelling tools, existing faces can be transferred to a digital form using equipment such as laser scanners, and law ...

Physically-based animation techniques enable more realistic and accurate animation to be created. We present a GPU-based finite element (FE) simulation and interactive visualisation system for efficiently producing ...

We present a technique for simulating accurate physically modelled acoustics within an outdoor urban environment and a tool that presents the acoustics alongside a visually rendered counterpart. Acoustic modelling is ...

The use of a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) has become a popular technique for the acquisition of 3D scenes in the fields of cultural heritage and archaeology. In this study, a semi-automatic reconstruction technique is ...