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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2002
Ying Huang, Beijing, CN;
Stephen Ssu-te Lin, Beijing, CN;
Baining Guo, Beijing, CN;
Heung-yeung Shum, Bejing, CN;
Ying Huang, Beijing, CN;
Stephen Ssu-te Lin, Beijing, CN;
Baining Guo, Beijing, CN;
Heung-Yeung Shum, Bejing, CN;
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A novel method for synchronizing the lips of a sketched face to an input voice. The lip synchronization system and method approach is to use training video as much as possible when the input voice is similar to the training voice sequences. Initially, face sequences are clustered from video segments, then by making use of sub-sequence Hidden Markov Models, a correlation between speech signals and face shape sequences is built. From this re-use of video, the discontinuity between two consecutive output faces is decreased and accurate and realistic synthesized animations are obtained. The lip synchronization system and method can synthesize faces from input audio in real-time without noticeable delay. Since acoustic feature data calculated from audio is directly used to drive the system without considering its phonemic representation, the method can adapt to any kind of voice, language or sound.
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