Presentation 2002/3/1
A Head-Behavior Synchronization Model with Utterance for Anthropomorphic Spoken-Dialog Agent
Yoshinori MATSUSHITA, Shinnichi KAWAMOTO, Mitsuru NAKAI, Hiroshi SHIMODAIRA, Shigeki SAGAYAMA,
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Abstract(in English) A novel method of synchronously synthesizing the head motion of an anthropomorphic spoken dialog agent with its utterance is proposed. Although much efforts have been taken to synchronize the lip motion with utterance, very few research exist for such head-motion control. A neural network is employed to learn the relationship between the acoustic features of the utterance and the head motion that are measured by a motion-capturing system. The proposed method enables to simulate the facial animation automatically that moves synchronously with any given utterances. Subjective evaluation of the performance of the method is reported as well.
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Keyword(in English) head motion / facial animation / utterance / neural network
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Title (in English) A Head-Behavior Synchronization Model with Utterance for Anthropomorphic Spoken-Dialog Agent
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Keyword(1) head motion
Keyword(2) facial animation
Keyword(3) utterance
Keyword(4) neural network
1st Author's Name Yoshinori MATSUSHITA
1st Author's Affiliation School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology()
2nd Author's Name Shinnichi KAWAMOTO
2nd Author's Affiliation School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
3rd Author's Name Mitsuru NAKAI
3rd Author's Affiliation School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
4th Author's Name Hiroshi SHIMODAIRA
4th Author's Affiliation School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
5th Author's Name Shigeki SAGAYAMA
5th Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo:School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Date 2002/3/1
Paper # HIP2001-98
Volume (vol) vol.101
Number (no) 699
Page pp.pp.-
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