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Auckland Uniservices Limited

Paul Charette

Serge R Lafontaine

David Peter Bullivant

Poul F Nielsen

Mark Sagar

Peter J Hunter

A method and apparatus is disclosed in which one or more standard faces are transformed into a target face so as to allow expressions corresponding to the standard face(s) to be used as animation vectors by the target face. In particular, a non-linear morphing transformation function is determined between the standard face(s) and the target face. The target face animation vectors are a function of the morphing transformation function and the animation vectors of the standard face(s).

Non-linear morphing of faces and their dynamics

An image processing system in which the vertices of an object contained within an image are analyzed using a singular value decomposition (SVD) method is disclosed. The use of the SVD allows the original vertices data to be reduced through filtering or truncating the singular values associated with the image. In addition, the reduced vertices data and the associated SVD matrices allows for efficiently streaming video data.

Basis functions of three-dimensional models for compression, transformation and streaming

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Valencia, CA, United States of America

Paul Charette