Los Angeles Noir, a 2011 film made by Rockstar, surprised many with facial animations that were far superior to other games. The technology used at this time is called MotionScan, and basically, the actor is in a room where several cameras are elaborately placed...
A demo video of Facebook's digital human project under the name “Codec Avatar” has been released. This is an added part compared to the 2019 video, and the avatar appearance has been changed to be more realistic and shows the technique of tracking the entire body without a marker. March 2019...
It is a code repository of GANimation, a technology that creates animations that change facial expressions by inputting a single image. Basically, it is a conditional GAN, and it uses FACS (facial action coding system), a methodology to describe the anatomical movements of the face. According to FACS we…
Japan's Virtual Human Project, Saya Project. It's in Japanese, so I couldn't understand all the progress, but the visual completion was quite high and the expression was natural. In the future, we plan to add functions such as adding human emotions, behavior recognition, and dialogue…
Introducing the Danbooru 2019 version link, an animated character image database. There are about 3.7 million images and about 29 tags are attached per image. Examples of tags include “1girl”, “solo”, “long_hair”, “highres”, “smile”, and “open_mouth”…
There are many complex human emotion perceptions and expressions (e.g. angry emotions affect facial expressions, voices, and language). Here's an open dataset with audio-videos tied together and emotionally labeled. The Ryerson…
This is an article from Synthesia blog that applies AI technology to media marketing with the wording “Synthetic media”. The main field of the company is to transfer the facial expressions and lip shape of the model in the video from another video and synthesize (adjust?) it.
Rosebud.ai (https://rosebud.ai/) is targeting the marketing market with a technology that creates and synthesizes virtual model faces on images created for marketing campaigns. The result is quite natural, and the model face can be replaced at any time without having to take a picture again...
TikTok added a filter that converts human faces into animated characters in real time. Selfie2Anime and UGatIT made by Kim Joon-ho have results for reference, but TikTok's technology seems to have reached a considerable level in terms of completeness. A delicate face...
