Abstract

The aim of this special issue is to provide a detailed description of state-of-the-art systems for animating faces during speech, and identify new techniques that have recently emerged from both the audiovisual speech and computer graphics research communities. This special issue is a followup to the first LIPS Visual Speech Synthesis Challenge held as a special session at INTERSPEECH 2008 in Brisbane, Australia. As a motivation for the present special issue, we will report on the LIPS Challenge with respect to the synthesis techniques, andmore importantly the methods and results of the subjective evaluation.

Highlights

  • The techniques that are applied to animate a virtual speaker or singer range from model-based to video-based animation

  • The aim of this special issue is to provide a detailed description of state-of-the-art systems for animating faces during speech, and identify new techniques that have recently emerged from both the audiovisual speech and computer graphics research communities

  • This special issue is a followup to the first LIPS Visual Speech Synthesis Challenge held as a special session at INTERSPEECH 2008 in Brisbane, Australia

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Introduction

The techniques that are applied to animate a virtual speaker or singer range from model-based to video-based animation.

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