Talking Heads (2010)

Computer facial animation | Interactive online characters (Automated online assistant) | See also Talking Head



lNlfRcHr93 Abstract 'lbrning Away from Talking Heads: The Use of Video-as-Data in Neurosurgery
BA Nardi, H Schwarz, A Kuchinsky, R Leichner... - 2009 - en.scientificcommons.org
Studies of video as a support for collaborative work have provided little hard evidence of its utility 
for either task performance or fostering telepresence, ie the conveyance of a faceto-face like 
sociat presence for remotely located participants. To date, most research on the value of ... 
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Virtual Reality manuscript No.(will be inserted by the editor) Mixed feelings: Expression of non-basic emotions in a muscle-based talking head
I Albrecht, M Schröder, J Haber... - 2008 - Citeseer
... A physics-based facial animation system was combined with an equally flexible and expressive
text-to-speech synthesis system, based upon the same emotion model, to form a talking head
capable of expressing non-basic emotions of varying intensities. ... 
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The Talking Head: Substance, Subjectivity, and Subjugation
D Williams, P Sjöberg... - Visible Evidence 18, 2011 - 67.20.104.166
Often used to impart veracity on a master documentary narrative, the set-up interview can reveal 
or conceal ideologies by constructing the substance of both authentic and imagined truths through 
selected expert personalities or primary sources. However, as Linda Williams notes in ... 
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Sciences (ICPhS'03). Barcelona, Spain. Internationalization of a Talking Head
S Ouni, DW Massaro, MM Cohen, K Young... - 2008 - Citeseer
CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles): In this paper we describe a general
scheme for internationalization of our talking head, Baldi, to speak other languages. ... Sciences
(ICPhS'03). Barcelona, Spain. Internationalization of a Talking Head. ... 
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System for Low-Latency Animation of Talking Heads
E Cosatto, HP Graf... - US Patent App. 12/627,573, 2009 - Google Patents
(i9) United States (12) Patent Application Publication Cosatto et al. US 20100076750A1 (io) 
Pub. No.: US 2010/0076750 Al (43) Pub. Date: Mar. 25, 2010 (54) SYSTEM FOR LOW-LATENCY 
ANIMATION OF TALKING HEADS (75) Inventors: Eric Cosatto, Highlands, NJ (US); Hans ... 
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An audiovisual talking head for augmented speech generation: models and animations based on a real speaker's articulatory data
P Badin, F Elisei, G Bailly... - Articulated Motion and ..., 2008 - Springer
Abstract. We present a methodology developed to derive three-dimensional models of speech 
articulators from volume MRI and multiple view video im- ages acquired on one speaker. Linear 
component analysis is used to model these highly deformable articulators as the ... 
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Talking heads: Crime reporting on cable news
NA Frost... - Justice Quarterly, 2011 - informaworld.com
In this study, we examine the extent to which criminologists and other academ- ics participate 
in newsmaking criminology as guests on cable news shows. Build- ing on earlier examinations 
of print media, we explore the ways in which crime is portrayed on popular cable ... 
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Real-time 3D talking head from a synthetic viseme dataset
A Niswar, EP Ong, HT Nguyen... - Proceedings of the 8th ..., 2009 - portal.acm.org
In this paper, we describe a simple and fast way to build a 3D talk- ing head which can be used 
in many applications requiring audio- visual speech animation system. The talking head is constructed 
from a synthetic 3D viseme dataset, which is realistic enough and can be generated with ... 
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System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads
E Cosatto, HP Graf, TM Isaacson... - US Patent 7,353,177, 2008 - Google Patents
US 7,353,177 B2 Page 2 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Kakumanu et al., "Speech Driven Facial 
Animation," Proceedings of the 2001 Workshop on Perceptive user Interfaces, Nov. 2001, Orlando 
Florida.* Lavagetto, F. et al., "Converting Speech into Lip Movements: A Multimdia ... 
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A comparison of German talking heads in a smart home environment
[PDF] from tu-berlin.deS Fagel, C Kuehnel, B Weiss... - ... on Auditory-Visual ..., 2008 - isca-speech.org
The authors describe a newly developed German Text-To- audiovisual-Speech (TTavS) synthesis 
system based on the English speaking HeadZero. Targets of the control parameters of the talking 
head are generated by mapping of German phonemes to the originally English visemic ... 
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System for low-latency animation of talking heads
E Cosatto, HP Graf... - US Patent 7,627,478, 2009 - Google Patents
US 7,627,478 B2 Page 2 US PATENT DOCUMENTS 6,253,282 Bl 6/2001 Gish 6,295,068 Bl 
9/2001 Peddada et al. 6,363,413 B2 3/2002 Kidder 6,392,652 Bl 5/2002 Cronin et al. 6,393,526 
Bl 5/2002 Crow et al. 6,426,753 Bl 7/2002 Migdal 6,433,784 Bl 8/2002 Merrick et al. ... 
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Evaluating talking heads for smart home systems
C Kühnel, B Weiss, I Wechsung... - Proceedings of the 10th ..., 2008 - portal.acm.org
Page 1. Evaluating Talking Heads for Smart Home Systems ... Sebastian Möller Quality and Usability
Lab, Berlin Institute of Technology Berlin, Germany ABSTRACT In this paper we report the results
of a user study evalu- ating talking heads in the smart home domain. ... 
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System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads
E Cosatto, HP Graf, TM Isaacson... - US Patent 7,844,467, 2010 - Google Patents
US007844467B1 (12) United States Patent ao) Patent no.: us 7,844,467 bi Cosatto et al. 
(45) Date of Patent: *Nov. 30,2010 (54) SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CONVERSATIONAL 
VISUAL PROSODY FOR TALKING HEADS (75) Inventors: Eric Cosatto, Highlands, NJ ... 
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System for Low-Latency Animation of Talking Heads
E Cosatto, HP Graf... - US Patent App. 20,100/ ..., 2009 - freepatentsonline.com
Methods and apparatus for rendering a talking head on a client device are disclosed. The client 
device has a client cache capable of storing audio/visual data associated with rendering the 
talking head. The method comprises storing sentences in a client cache of a client device ... 
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[PDF] Studies on Using the SynFace Talking Head for the Hearing Impaired
[PDF] from psu.eduS Al Moubayed, J Beskow, AM Öster, G Salvi... - Proceedings of ..., 2009 - Citeseer
SynFace is a lip-synchronized talking agent which is optimized as a visual reading support for 
the hearing impaired. In this paper we present the large scale hearing impaired user studies 
carried out for three languages in the Hearing at Home project. The user tests focus on ... 
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A constraint-based approach to visual speech for a Mexican-Spanish talking head
[PDF] from hindawi.comOM Lazalde, S Maddock... - International Journal of ..., 2008 - portal.acm.org
... a Mexican-Spanish Talking Head Oscar Martinez Lazalde, Steve Maddock, and Michael Meredith ...
This is demonstrated using a Mexican-Spanish talking head, which can vary its speed of talking
and produce coarticulation effects. Copyright (c) 2008 Oscar Martinez Lazalde et al. ... 
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Sensitive Talking Heads [Applications Corner]
[PDF] from psu.eduTS Huang, MA Hasegawa-Johnson... - Signal Processing ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spoken language user interfac- es can dramatically speed up computer use. Unfortunately, if 
the speech user interface interferes too often, the user turns it off. Users are unforgiving: a 
tech- nology that impairs productivity just once may never get a second chance. To give ... 
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Quality of talking heads in different interaction and media contexts
B Weiss, C Kühnel, I Wechsung, S Fagel... - Speech Communication, 2010 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of three different factors on the quality of talking heads as metaphors 
of a spoken dialogue system in the smart home domain. The main focus lies on the effect of voice 
and head characteristics on audio and video quality, as well as overall quality. ... 
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System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads
E Cosatto, PG Hans, TM Isaacson... - US Patent 7,349,852, 2008 - Google Patents
US 7,349,852 B2 Page 2 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Hayes-Roth et al., "Desigining for 
Diversity: Multi-Cultural Char- acters for a Multi-Cultural World," Proceedings of Imagina, 
Feb. 2002.* Kakumanu et al., "Speech Driven Facial Animation," Proceedings of the 2001 ... 
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[PDF] An Image-based Talking Head System
[PDF] from uni-hannover.deK Liu... - LIPS 2009 Special Session in AVSP, 2009 - tnt.uni-hannover.de
This paper presents an image-based talking head system, which includes two parts: analysis 
and synthesis. The analysis is to cre- ate a database containing a large number of mouth images 
and their associated facial and speech features. The synthesis is to generate realistic ... 
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From Experiments to Articulatory Motion-A Three Dimensional Talking Head Model
XB Lu, W Thorpe, K Foster... - Tenth Annual Conference ..., 2009 - isca-speech.org
The goal of this study is to develop a customised computer model that can accurately represent 
the motion of vocal artic- ulators during vowels and consonants. Models of the articula- tors were 
constructed as Finite Element (FE) meshes based on digitised high-resolution MRI ( ... 
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DO-IT-YOURSELF PHOTO REALISTIC TALKING HEAD CREATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
S Smith, M Cheiky... - EP Patent 2,030,171, 2009 - freepatentsonline.com
... DO-IT-YOURSELF PHOTO REALISTIC TALKING HEAD CREATION SYSTEM AND
METHOD. European Patent Application EP2030171 Kind Code: A1. Inventors: Smith,
Shawn (Georgetown Avenue, 8.328, Los Angeles, CA ... 
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Synthesizing photo-real talking head via trajectory-guided sample selection
[PDF] from cuhk.edu.hkL Wang, X Qian, W Han... - Eleventh Annual Conference ..., 2010 - isca-speech.org
In this paper, we propose an HMM trajectory-guided, real image sample concatenation approach 
to photo-real talking head synthesis. It renders a smooth and natural video of articulators in sync 
with given speech signals. An audio-visual database is used to train a statistical Hidden ... 
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Behaviour transfer between expressive talking heads
A Aubrey, D Marshall... - Proceedings of the ACM/SSPNET ..., 2010 - portal.acm.org
Copyright is held by the author / owner(s). FAA 2010, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, October 
21, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4503-0522-8/10/0010 ... Andrew Aubrey, David Marshall, Paul Rosin 
Cardiff University * ... 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 -50 ... (a) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 -50 ... 
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Optimization of an image-based talking head system
[PDF] from hindawi.comK Liu... - EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and ..., 2009 - portal.acm.org
... Research Article Optimization of an Image-Based Talking Head System Kang Liu and Joern
Ostermann ... Recommended by Gérard Bailly This paper presents an image-based talking
head system, which includes two parts: analysis and synthesis. ... 
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Mobile Talking Head System using a 3D Face Model Generator
SW Kim, KH Choi, JW Moon... - Advances in Computer ..., 2010 - actapress.com
The design architecture of automatic creation and rendering of a talking head between server 
and client PDAs are presented. Especially, a talking head system (THS) for a PDA mobile platform 
is developed to animate the face of a speaking 3D avatar as if a person is speaking in the ... 
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Retargeting cued speech hand gestures for different talking heads and speakers
[PDF] from archives-ouvertes.frG Bailly, Y Fang, F Elisei... - 2008 - hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
Cued Speech is a communication system that complements lip-reading with a small set of possible 
handshapes placed in different positions near the face. Developing a Cued Speech capable 
system is a time-consuming and difficult challenge. This paper focuses on how an ... 
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From Talking to Thinking Heads: Report 2008
[PDF] from armanaresearch.orgD Burnham, A Abrahamyan, L Cavedon, C Davis... - 2008 - isca-speech.org
... Head and (ii) the Pedestal Head. Directions for future research are outlined as
appropriate. Index Terms: talking heads, human-computer interaction, evaluation,
performance 1. Introduction The Thinking Head project [1] originated ... 
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EMOTIONAL TALKING HEAD: THE DEVELOPMENT OF " LUCIA&quot
P Cosi, EC Magno... - 2008 - Citeseer
The aim of this work is that of reviewing the ISTC activities focused on the development and implementation 
of LUCIA a new Italian emotional talking head based on a modified version of the Cohen-Massaro's 
labial coarticulation model. LUCIA is an MPEG-4 standard facial animation system ... 
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From talking heads to communicating bodies: Cybersemiotics and total communication
[PDF] from mdpi.comON Thomsen - Entropy, 2010 - mdpi.com
ISSN 1099-4300 www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy ... From Talking Heads to Communicating 
Bodies: Cybersemiotics ... Department of International Culture and Communication Studies, 
CBS-Copenhagen Business ... School, LaCoMe-Center for Language, Cognition, and ... 
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Web-Based Evaluation of Talking Heads: How Valid Is It?
B Weiss, C Kühnel, I Wechsung, S Möller... - Intelligent Virtual ..., 2009 - Springer
Web-based tests are an established method for the evaluation (eg [1]). How- ever, the validity 
of web-experiments has not yet been evaluated for the field of embodied conversation agents 
(ECAs). In this paper, evaluation results ob- tained in a non-interactive scenario in our lab ... 
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Comparison of different talking heads in non-interactive settings
B Weiss, C Kühnel, I Wechsung, S Möller... - ... . Ambient, Ubiquitous and ..., 2009 - Springer
Abstract. Six different talking heads have been evaluated in two consecutive experiments. Two 
text-to-speech components and three head components have been used. Results from semantic 
differentials show a clear preference for the most human-like and expressive head. The ... 
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Effectiveness and usability of an online help agent embodied as a talking head
J Simonin, N Carbonell... - Proceedings of the 10th ..., 2008 - portal.acm.org
Page 1. Effectiveness and Usability of an Online Help Agent Embodied as a Talking Head ...
Both help agents used the same database of speech and graphics messages; EH was
personified using a talking head while UH was not embodied. ... 
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The key lessons learnt from producing the ABC programme Talking Heads a talk show/documentary hybrid in a fast turnaround environment
[PDF] from qut.edu.auJ King - 2009 - eprints.qut.edu.au
The key lessons learnt from producing the ABC programme Talking Heads a talk
show/documentary hybrid in a fast turnaround environment ... 39 Appendices ..... 43
Appendix 1: Talking Heads - Guest List and Audience Ratings 2007 ..... ... 
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[PDF] Two (talking) heads are not better than one
[PDF] from concordia.caM Li - Economics Bulletin, 2008 - alcor.concordia.ca
Conventional wisdom has it that second opinion is helpful for wise decision making. 
However, there are scenarios that apparently call this principle into question. For example, voters 
often do not become better informed about issues by watching election debates than by ... 
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Talking Heads for Interacting with Spoken Dialog Smart-Home Systems
C Kühnel, B Weiss... - Tenth Annual Conference of the ..., 2009 - isca-speech.org
Developers of multimodal systems are frequently confronted with the question of whether or not 
a certain input or output component would positively contribute to system quality. At our lab a 
multimodal smart-home system is set up to investi- gate evaluation of multimodal systems. ... 
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Multimodal control of talking heads
G Bailly, O Govokhina... - Acoustical Society of ..., 2008 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Title: Multimodal control of talking heads. Authors: Bailly, Gerard; Govokhina, Oxana; Breton,
Gaspard. Publication: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 123, issue 5, p. 3938.
Publication Date: 00/2008. Origin: CROSSREF. DOI: 10.1121/1.2936014. ... 
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[CITATION] Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present
S Steenstra - 2010 - Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Audio-Visual Speech Asynchrony Modeling in a Talking Head
A Karpov, L Tsirulnik, Z Krnoul... - ... Annual Conference of ..., 2009 - isca-speech.org
Abstract An audio-visual speech synthesis system with modeling of asynchrony between auditory 
and visual speech modalities is proposed in the paper. Corpus-based study of real recordings 
gave us the required data for understanding the problem of modalities asynchrony that is ... 
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[PDF] Talking Heads for the Web: what for?
[PDF] from psu.eduK Balci, F Pianesi... - 2008 - Citeseer
Talking heads and, more generally, human-like embodied interfaces have become popular as 
the front end to many web sites and as part of many computer applications. In most cases, 
however, these interfaces have just the graphical appearance of a body without any ... 
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Photo Realistic Talking Head Creation, Content Creation, and Distribution System and Method
SA Smith, RJ Smith, P Gately... - US Patent App. 12/ ..., 2009 - Google Patents
US 20100085363A1 (i9) United States (12) Patent Application Publication oo) Pub. No.: US 
2010/0085363 Al Smith et al. (43) Pub. Date: Apr. 8,2010 (54) PHOTO REALISTIC TALKING 
HEAD CREATION, CONTENT CREATION, AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD ... 
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Photo Realistic Talking Head Creation, Content Creation, and Distribution System and Method
SA Smith, RJ Smith, P Gately... - US Patent App. 20,100/ ..., 2009 - freepatentsonline.com
A system and method for creating, distributing, and viewing photo-realistic talking head based 
multimedia content over a network, comprising a server and a variety of communication 
devices, including cell phones and other portable wireless devices, and a software suite, ... 
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Talking heads: Speech synthesis and embodied cognition.
P Rubin, G Ramsay... - The Journal of the ..., 2009 - link.aip.org
This presentation provides a brief overview of 300 years of effort toward the creation of talking 
heads: mechanical, electronic, and/or computational models of human speech. Speech, 
language, communication, and cognition are fundamentally shaped, in part, by both ... 
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A talking head for speech tutoring
[PDF] from shef.ac.ukP Dey, S Maddock... - Proceedings of the ACM/SSPNET ..., 2010 - portal.acm.org
This work applies a viseme-driven talking head in a pronunciation training system. The aim is 
to create a pronunciation assistant to complement traditional methods and to assist the work 
of a human language tutor. Visual speech can be valuable in speech tutoring applications ... 
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Talking head as life blog
[PDF] from cvut.czL Kunc, J Kleindienst... - Text, Speech and Dialogue, 2008 - Springer
Abstract. The paper describes an experimental presentation system that can au- tomatically generate 
dynamic ECA-based presentations from structured data in- cluding text context, images, music 
and sounds, videos, etc. Thus the Embodied Conversational Agent acts as a moderator in ... 
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Describing" INTERFACE" a Matlab(c) Tool for Building Talking Heads
[PDF] from cnr.itP Cosi... - 2008 - isca-speech.org
INTERFACE is a Matlab(c).tool for simplifying and automating many of the operations needed 
for building a talking head. INTERFACE consists of set of processing tools, focusing on dynamic 
articulatory data physically extracted by an automatic optotracking 3D movement ... 
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Talking Heads and Pronunciation Training: A Review
V Hazan - Ninth Annual Conference of the International Speech ..., 2008 - isca-speech.org
Some 200 years ago, the French journalist Rivarol set out his vision of a mechanical talking head 
in every household that would teach native and foreign speakers to speak with a 
'standardised' French accent. Rivarol could not have envisaged that these talking heads ... 
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Connecting Art and Science for Education: Learning through an Advanced Virtual Theater with "Talking Heads"
A Adamo, PA Bertacchini, E Bilotta, P Pantano... - Leonardo, 2010 - MIT Press
Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) real- ized a virtual stage that 
allows the user not only to enter and explore the environment but also to inter- act with its content 
by controlling lighting, movement and design el- ements built into it [5]. However, the most ... 
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A development of czech talking head
Z Krnoul... - Ninth Annual Conference of the ..., 2008 - isca-speech.org
This paper presents a research on the Czech talking head sys- tem. It gives an overview of methods 
used for visual speech animation, parameterization of a human face and a tongue, necessary 
data sources and a synthesis method. A 3D anima- tion model is used for a pseudo- ... 
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This paper describes the Thinking-Talking Head; an
C Davis, J Kim, T Kuratate, J Chen... - 2008 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 42289566. This paper describes the Thinking-Talking Head; an (2008). ... 
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Exploring the Uncanny Valley Effect with Talking Heads
T Kuratate, K Ayers, J Kim... - Ninth Annual Conference ..., 2008 - isca-speech.org
Here the "Uncanny Valley", where falling just short of perfection in creating synthetic humans 
exacts a large negative reaction, is explored with talking head animations focusing on naturalness 
in speech, face model and face motion. We discuss possible techniques to manipulate ... 
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3D Audiovisual Rendering and Real-Time Interactive Control of Expressivity in a Talking Head
C Jacquemin, B Katz, A Max, L Pointal... - 2008 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract. The integration of virtual agents in real-time interactive virtual applications raises several 
challenges. The rendering of the movements of the virtual character in the virtual scene (locomotion 
of the character or rotation of its head) and the binaural rendering in 3D of the synthetic ... 
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[CITATION] Distance Education and the Talking Head
M Roman - A practicum for biomedical engineering and ..., 2008 - Kendall Hunt Pub Co
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[HTML] A Constraint-Based Approach to Visual Speech for a Mexican-Spanish Talking Head
[HTML] from hindawi.comL Oscar Martinez, M Steve... - International Journal of ..., 2008 - hindawi.com
Film, computer games, and anthropometric interfaces need facial animation, of which a key component 
is visual speech. Approaches to producing this animation include pose-based interpolation, concatenation 
of dynamic units, and physically based modeling (see [1] for a review). Our approach is ... 
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Massy speaks English: Adaptation and evaluation of a talking head
[PDF] from beuth-hochschule.deS Fagel - Ninth Annual Conference of the International Speech ..., 2008 - isca-speech.org
This paper presents an extension of a talking head that was implemented to synthesize audiovisual 
speech utterances in German. A mapping of English to German phonemes and a subsequent 
refinement of the co-articulation model enables the system to generate English ... 
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[PDF] 3D Talking-Head Interface to Voice-Interactive Services on Mobile Phones
[PDF] from rdc.czJ Danihelka, R Hak, L Kencl... - International Journal of Mobile Human ..., 2011 - rdc.cz
We present a novel framework for easy creation of interac- tive, platform-independent voice-services 
with an animated 3D talking-head interface, on mobile phones. The frame- work supports automated 
multi-modal interaction using speech and 3D graphics. We address the difficulty of ... 
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Talking heads
D Read - Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 2008 - emeraldinsight.com
For organizations that plan, design, and manage their physical facilities well, there are many 
strong connections to HR and organizational development issues and goals: a great facility can 
help attract and retain staff; can motivate them and increase job satisfaction; can help ... 
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[CITATION] Talking heads and emergency response
HJ Elston - Journal of Chemical Health and Safety, 2011 - Elsevier
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PHOTO REALISTIC TALKING HEAD CREATION, CONTENT CREATION, AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD
S SMITH, R SMITH, P GATELY... - WO Patent WO/2009/ ..., 2009 - wipo.int
A system and method for creating, distributing, and viewing photo-realistic talking head based 
multimedia content over a network, comprising a server and a variety of communication 
devices, including cell phones and other portable wireless devices, and a software suite, ... 
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[PDF] Imitation Learning Based Talking Heads in Humanoid Robotics
[PDF] from psu.eduE Mumolo... - 2008 - Citeseer
The main goal of this Chapter is to describe a novel approach for the control of Talking Heads 
in Humanoid Robotics. In a preliminary section we will discuss the state of the art of the research 
in this area. In the following sections we will describe our research results while in the ... 
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Talking heads: An interview with Ratan Jalan
GP Prabhakar - Leadership in Health Services, 2010 - eprints.uwe.ac.uk
... Login |, Talking heads: An interview with Ratan Jalan. Prabhakar, Guru Prakash (2010) Talking
heads: An interview with Ratan Jalan. Leadership in Health Services, 23 (2). ISSN 1751-1879.
Full text not available from this repository. Item Type: Article. ... 
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A Web-Oriented Java3D Talking Head
O Gambino, A Augello, A Caronia, G Pilato... - Human-Computer ..., 2009 - Springer
Abstract. Facial animation denotes all those systems performing speech synchro- nization with 
an animated face model. These kinds of systems are named Talking Heads or Talking 
Faces. At the same time simple dialogue systems called chatbots have been developed. ... 
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[HTML] Optimization of an Image-Based Talking Head System
[HTML] from hindawi.comL Kang... - EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music ..., 2009 - hindawi.com
This paper presents an image-based talking head system, which includes two parts: analysis 
and synthesis. The audiovisual analysis part creates a face model of a recorded human 
subject, which is composed of a personalized 3D mask as well as a large database of ... 
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Abstract Talking Head: Synthetic Video Facial Animation in MPEG-4.
A Fedorov, T Firsova, V Kuriakin, E Martinova... - 2008 - Citeseer
... Model-independent animation method was used. A number of new features including mouth
contours special processing, eyelashes and "expression wrinkles " were added beyond standard
to improve the resemblance of the Talking Head to the prototype person. ... 
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Video Editorial~ Getting away from" talking heads"
J Baggaley - The International Review of Research in Open and ..., 2008 - irrodl.org
Video Editorial ~ Getting away from "talking heads". 
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A Java3D Talking Head for a Chatbot
S Gaglio, G Pilato, R Pirrone... - ... on Complex, Intelligent ..., 2008 - computer.org
Facial animation is referred to all those systems per- forming the speech synchronization with 
an animated face model. This kind of systems are called "Talking Head" or "Talking Face". In 
this paper a Talking Head oriented to the creation of a Chatbot is presented. It requires an ... 
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[PDF] Universal combined system: speech recognition, emotion recognition and talking head for deaf and hard of hearing people
[PDF] from univ-paris8.frH Daassi-Gnaba... - 2009 - univ-paris8.fr
Abstract. The work presented here is an extension of the old LABIAO (Lecture lABIale Assistée 
par Ordinateur or Computer-Assisted lip reading) project. Its object is to provide lip readers 
and, especially deaf and hard of hearing people with an artificial talking head piloted by ... 
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Czech Artificial Computerized Talking Head George
J Chaloupka... - Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, ..., 2009 - Springer
Abstract. This contribution is about a computer-implemented Czech speaking talking head called 
"George". This talking head is based on a fully parametric photo-realistic 3D model of human 
head. The creation and development of this talking head is described here in detail. The ... 
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DO-IT-YOURSELF PHOTO REALISTIC TALKING HEAD CREATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
S SMITH, M CHEIKY... - WO Patent WO/2008/156,437, 2008 - wipo.int
A do-it-yourself photo realistic talking head creation system comprising: a template; handheld 
device comprising display and video camera having an image output signal of a subject; a computer 
having a mixer program for mixing the template and image output signal of the subject ... 
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Talking heads: interviewing suspects from a cultural perspective
[PDF] from utwente.nlK Beune - 2009 - doc.utwente.nl
Thesis, University of Twente, 2009 (c) Karlijn Beune ISBN: 978-90-265-2902-0 ... Bookdesign 
and printed by Gildeprint Drukkerijen, Enschede, the Netherlands ... Karlijn Beune geboren 
op 26 maart 1981 te Enschede ... Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren ... 
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[PDF] Construction of a Personalized Talking Head from Two Images
[PDF] from psu.eduK Kroschel... - 2008 - Citeseer
Abstract: To improve the acceptance of man-machine interfaces (MMI), per- sonalized talking 
heads are helpful. Personalization means that the head shown on the display depicts someone 
known to the person operating the machine. A typical application is the MMI of a ... 
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Talking Head-Visualizations & Level of Detail
[PDF] from cvut.czL Kunc... - | International Conference Visualisation, 2008 - computer.org
Abstract Embodied conversational agents are fast growing area of research interest. These agents 
allow interacting with computers in a natural way. The usage of agents is closely associated 
with the problem of facial animation. Realistic real-time facial animation is very computa- ... 
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Code Red-Return of the Talking Heads!
C Scanlan - 2009 - editlib.org
Technological constraints forced early designers of asynchronous online courses into developing 
innovative strategies to provide content and keep their students engaged. The fortuitous result 
was a student-centered focus, with an emphasis on regular interaction with the content ... 
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Two Prophecies and a Talking Head-An Anglo-Norman Text in the Lanercost Chronicle
DB Tyson - Nottingham Medieval Studies, 2009 - Brepols Publishers
The Anglo-Norman text, which I give in the appendix, consists of two tales which tell the stories 
of two knights in the service of Henry II. Wanting to know their futures, they consult an oracle 
and misinterpret its predictions with disastrous results. It is scribally an absolutely integral ... 
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LIPPS-A Virtual Teacher for Speechreading Based on a Dialog-Controlled Talking-Head
H Gebert... - Computers Helping People with Special Needs, 2010 - Springer
K. Miesenberger et al. (Eds.): ICCHP 2010, Part I, LNCS 6179, pp. 621-629, 2010. (c) 
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 ... Based on a Dialog-Controlled Talking-Head ... Hermann 
Gebert1 and Hans-Heinrich Bothe1,2 ... 1 Technische Universität Berlin, D-10623 Berlin, ... 
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THE LEGAL SCHOLAR AS TALKING HEAD: AN ETHICAL QUANDARY IN THE CONTEXT OF STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW REFORM
D GORDON - JL Soc'y, 2008 - litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com
SUMMARY: ... His Associate Dean for Academic Affairs recommended him to the University Media 
Relations people as the likely source of information about six Florida statewide constitutional 
ballot questions in the November 7, 2006 election. ... The Associate Dean surmised that ... 
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Visual Speech Synthesis-Talking Head
Z Krnoul - University of West Bohemia, 2008 - kky.zcu.cz
This PhD thesis describes the research conducted in the field of visual speech synthesis. The 
main aim of the thesis is to create a complete system of automatic visual speech synthesis, which 
converts written text into animation of talking head (talking head synthesis system). To ... 
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Czech Arti?cial Computerized Talking Head George
JC andZdenek Chaloupka - ... 15-18, 2008 Revised Selected and ..., 2009 - books.google.com
Czech Arti?cial Computerized Talking Head George Josef Chaloupka1 andZdenek Chaloupka2 
1 Institute of Information Technology, Technical University of Liberec, Studentska 2, 461 17 
Liberec, Czech Republic josef. chaloupka@ tul. cz 2 Institute of Photonics and ... 
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[CITATION] Talking Heads-Nihon Superior's Tetsuro Nishimura
M Buetow - Circuits Assembly, 2008 - San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman ...
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[CITATION] Talking Heads-KPS's Pierre de Villemejane.
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[CITATION] Talking Heads-DEK's John Hartner.
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[PDF] A Tool for Simplified Creation of MPEG4-Based Virtual Talking Heads
[PDF] from kth.seF Hedberg, HJ Beskow, EB Granström... - 2008 - kiosk.nada.kth.se
Page 1. A Tool for Simplified Creation of MPEG4-Based Virtual Talking Heads FREDRIK
HEDBERG Master of Science Thesis Stockholm, Sweden 2006 Page 2. A Tool for Simplified
Creation of MPEG4-Based Virtual Talking Heads FREDRIK HEDBERG ... 
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[CITATION] Talking Heads-Jabil's Tony Allan and Jeff Cavanaugh.
M Buetow - Circuits Assembly, 2008 - San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman ...
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[CITATION] Talking Heads-Syncro's Ed Childress and why managing risk is essential to EMS companies.
M Buetow - Circuits Assembly, 2008 - San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman ...
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A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot
R PIRRONE, S GAGLIO... - Proceedings of the Second ..., 2008 - surplus.unipa.it
... (2008). A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot. Autori: GAMBINO O; GAGLIO S; PILATO G;
PIRRONE R; AUGELLO A; CARONIA A. Titolo: A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot. Nome
del convegno: CISIS 2008. Luogo del convegno: Barcelona, Spain. ... 
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Talking heads: the neuroscience of language (hardback)
G DENES - 2010 - lavoisier.fr
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Notice. Imprimer la notice. Talking heads: the neuroscience of language (hardback).
Auteur : DENES GIANFRANCO. Prix indisponible Ajouter ... 
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Talking heads
E Molner - 2009 - hemerotecadigital.institutdelteatre. ...
Empreu aquest identificador per citar o enllaçar aquest ítem: http://hdl.handle.net/65324/7041.
Títol: Talking heads. Autor: Molner, Eduard. Data : 22-11-2006. Editorial: La Vanguardia. Altres
identificadors: 20061122MAE-VAN-VI.pdf. Apareix a les col·leccions: Hemeroteca. ... 
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Virtual Conversation with a Real Talking Head
A AUGELLO, O GAMBINO... - Proceedings of HSI 2008, ..., 2008 - surplus.unipa.it
... Tipologia: Proceedings (atti dei congressi). Citazione: GAMBINO O, AUGELLO A, CARONIA A,
PILATO G, PIRRONE R, & AND GAGLIO S (2008). Virtual Conversation with a Real Talking Head. ...
Titolo: Virtual Conversation with a Real Talking Head. Parole Chiave: Talking Head. ... 
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A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot
A AUGELLO, O GAMBINO... - Proceedings of the Second ..., 2008 - surplus.unipa.it
... Citazione: GAGLIO S, PIRRONE R, PILATO G, GAMBINO O, AUGELLO A, & CARONIA A (2008).
A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot. ... Autori: GAGLIO S; PIRRONE R; PILATO G; GAMBINO
O; AUGELLO A; CARONIA A. Titolo: A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot. ...