Facial Animation

Facial Animation.

Facial Animation at Curtin started with the conversion and release of the fascia system to the Public Domain. Later, fax was released - a facial animation system with keyframes. Valerie Hall was an Honours student whose facial animation research efforts can now be seen dotted around the Network.
Progress on facial animation continues in fits and starts as I get time and as other students get involved. The most recent work can be seen in Phil Dench's paper on converting CyberWare scans to Nurb surfaces.

Enjoy!

Valerie's README

Hi,

Included on this ftp area (see below for list) is:

1) my thesis on Facial Animation (helpful for anyone looking for references in the area)
2) A model of half a face, data points and topology.
3) a technical report by Steve Franks at SONY on facial animation.

site: www.talkingheads.computing.edu.au

dir: ~raytrace/ftp/graphics/bibliography/Facial_Animation
http://www.talkingheads.computing.edu.au/~raytrace/ftp/graphics/bibliography/Facial_Animation
files:

           thesis.ps.Z     (My thesis - 3M)

           thesis.txt.Z    (My thesis - text file)

           proposal.ps.Z   (My thesis proposal - 1.5M)     

           proposal.txt.Z  (My thesis proposal - text file)

           ann_biblio.ps.Z   (annotated bibliography)

           ann_biblio.txt.Z  (annotated biblio - text file)

           valerie.info    (info on data for half a face)

           valerie.st1	(3-D data for half a face)

           valerie.top	(topology for facial data)

           SCSL-TR-92-010.ps.Z  (Steve Franks' paper)

Valerie.

Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Western Australia
val@cs.curtin.edu.au

Facial Animation FTP Software.

Val's thesis - 3M.
Val's thesis - text file.
Val's thesis proposal - 1.5M.
Val's thesis proposal - text file.
annotated bibliography.
annotated biblio - text file.
info on data for half a face.
3-D data for half a face.
topology for facial data.
Steve Franks' paper.
facesave - Source code for facial model creation.
fascia - Source code for Parke facial model.
fax - Source code for animating facial models.

Phil Dench's CyberWare to Nurbs Research

Phil Dench has a technical paper on converting CyberWare Scans to Non Uniform Rational B-Splines. (The product mentioned is marketed).

Facial Images

Facial images (13 images 75K bytes inline).

Facial Animation Technical Reports

Marriott,A. (1992) Face Modelling for Character Animation. Curtin University of Technology Technical Report #14.

Facial Animation Movies

Marriott & Hall, CAN Welcome to the Show!!
Movie 1 (147,114 bytes)Facial Animation
Opening Computer Graphics Video for the NIT '92 conference. Hong Kong.

Facial Animation WWW Site

The WWW site mambo.ucsc.edu contains much information about Facial Animation.