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We introduce a physically-based facial animation system for natural-looking emotional expressions. Our system enables creation of simple facial expressions using Facial Action Coding System (FACS) and complex facial expressions by blending existing expressions. We propose a method for blending facial actions, based on a parameterization that combines elements of FACS and MPEG-4 standard. We explore the complex expression space by examining the blends of basic emotions produced with our model.
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Mäkäräinen, M., Takala, T. (2009). An Approach for Creating and Blending Synthetic Facial Expressions of Emotion. In: Ruttkay, Z., Kipp, M., Nijholt, A., Vilhjálmsson, H.H. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_27
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