Plausible conversations among characters are required to generate the ambiance of social settings such as a restaurant, hotel lobby, or cocktail party. In this paper, we propose a …
Natural movement plays a significant role in realistic speech animation. Numerous studies have demonstrated the contribution visual cues make to the degree we, as human …
Natural movement plays a significant role in realistic speech animation, and numerous studies have demonstrated the contribution visual cues make to the degree human …
K Haag, H Shimodaira - … Virtual Agents: 16th International Conference, IVA …, 2016 - Springer
Previous work in speech-driven head motion synthesis is centred around Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based methods and data that does not show a large variability of …
Natural movement plays a significant role in realistic speech animation. Numerous studies have demonstrated the contribution visual cues make to the degree we, as human …
C Ding, P Zhu, L Xie - Interspeech, 2015 - isca-archive.org
Head motion naturally occurs in synchrony with speech and carries important intention, attitude and emotion factors. This paper aims to synthesize head motions from natural …
C Canevari, L Badino, L Fadiga - INTERSPEECH, 2015 - isca-archive.org
In this paper we introduce a new Italian dataset consisting of simultaneous recordings of continuous speech and trajectories of important vocal tract articulators (ie tongue, lips …
In this paper, we present a talking head in which the lips and head motion are controlled using articulatory movements estimated from speech. A phone-size HMM-based inversion …
C Ding, P Zhu, L Xie, D Jiang, ZH Fu - Fifteenth Annual Conference of the …, 2014 - Citeseer
This paper presents a neural network approach for speech-driven head motion synthesis, which can automatically predict a speaker's head movement from his/her speech …