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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2017
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Wilmot Wei-Mau Li, Seattle, WA (US);
Jianchao Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Linjie Luo, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan W. Brandt, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Xiang Yu, Piscataway, NJ (US);
ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for facial expression capture for character animation are described. In one or more implementations, facial key points are identified in a series of images. Each image, in the series of images, is normalized from the identified facial key points. Facial features are determined from each of the normalized images. Then a facial expression is classified, based on the determined facial features, for each of the normalized images. In additional implementations, a series of images are captured that include performances of one or more facial expressions. The facial expressions in each image of the series of images are classified by a facial expression classifier. Then the facial expression classifications are used by a character animator system to produce a series of animated images of an animated character that include animated facial expressions that are associated with the facial expression classification of the corresponding image in the series of images.