Emotional face expression profiles supported by virtual human ontology

Expressive facial animation synthesis of human like characters has had many approaches with good results. MPEG‐4 standard has functioned as the basis of many of those approaches. In this paper we would like to lay out the knowledge of some of those approaches inside an ontology in order to support t...

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Published in:Computer animation and virtual worlds 2006-07, Vol.17 (3-4), p.259-269
Main Authors: García-Rojas, A., Vexo, F., Thalmann, D., Raouzaiou, A., Karpouzis, K., Kollias, S., Moccozet, L., Magnenat-Thalmann, N.
Format: Article
Language:English
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emotion expression
MPEG-4 facial animation
ontology
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Summary:Expressive facial animation synthesis of human like characters has had many approaches with good results. MPEG‐4 standard has functioned as the basis of many of those approaches. In this paper we would like to lay out the knowledge of some of those approaches inside an ontology in order to support the modeling of emotional facial animation in virtual humans (VH). Inside this ontology we will present MPEG‐4 facial animation concepts and its relationship with emotion through expression profiles that utilize psychological models of emotions. The ontology allows storing, indexing and retrieving prerecorded synthetic facial animations that can express a given emotion. Also this ontology can be used a refined knowledge base in regards to the emotional facial animation creation. This ontology is made using Web Ontology Language and the results are presented as answered queries. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:1546-4261
1546-427X
DOI:10.1002/cav.130