Kumar, Dinesh (2010) Animating facial expressions with facial action coding system. The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
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This thesis focuses on the development of an easy to use real-time 3D human facial expression and animation system driven entirely by Facial Action Coding System developed by psychologists Paul Ekman and Wallace Frieson in 1977 [1].
The Waters muscle based facial model [2] has been used and extended to allow the user to calibrate the facial deformations illustrated by examples images of each AU in [3]. This becomes the basis of the facial expression creation. Our facial model is then animated in a physics-based manner by use of muscle contractions that in turn cause deformations on the facial geometry; the simulation is efficient enough to be rendered real-time on current PC hardware.
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Facial animation, Facial Expression, Computer Graphics, Facial Action Coding System (FACS), Action Units (AUs), Muscle models, Low-Bandwidth teleconferencing. |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Divisions: | School of Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics (STEMP) |
| Depositing User: | Dinesh Kumar |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2025 23:30 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2025 23:30 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/15071 |
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