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Facial motion capture

Facial motion capture is the process of electronically converting the movements of a person's face into a digital database using cameras or laser scanners. This database may then be used to produce computer-generated imagery (CGI), computer animation for movies, games, or real-time avatars. Because the motion of CGI characters is derived from the…

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Technologies

Cameras The Polar Express Beowulf Tom Hanks Nostrils

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Overview

Laser scanners Motion capture Expression Multi-camera rigs Small movements

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History

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Facial expression capture

Digital cameras Pose Muscles Skin Input device

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Overview

Laser scanners 3D scanning
Motion capture
Expression Facial expression
Multi-camera rigs 3D rig
Small movements Microexpression
Faces Face
Recognize emotions Emotion recognition
Machine learning
Lens Snapchat
FaceTime
Avatars Avatar (computing)
Mixed reality
Virtual reality
Meta Meta Platforms
Meta Quest Pro
Apple Apple Inc
Apple Vision Pro
Latency Latency (engineering)

History

Lance Williams Lance Williams (graphics researcher)

Technologies

Cameras
The Polar Express The Polar Express (film)
Beowulf Beowulf (2007 film)
Tom Hanks
Nostrils Nostril
CMU Carnegie Mellon University
IBM
University of Manchester
Active appearance models Active appearance model
Principal component analysis
Eigen tracking Eigenface
Frame Film frame
CMOS cameras CMOS camera
Facial recognition system
Image Metrics
The Matrix The Matrix (franchise)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
Mova Mova (camera system)
Avatar Avatar (2009 film)

Facial expression capture

Digital cameras Digital camera
Pose Pose (computer vision)
Muscles Muscle
Skin
Input device

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Facial motion capture

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Facial motion capture → process of electronically converting the movements of a person's face into a digital database using cameras or laser scanners

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capture facial motion face used tracking using systems real-time expression technology markerless expressions movements avatars system track animation cameras computer-generated

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Facial motion capture	is a	process of electronically converting the movements of a person's face into a digital database using cameras or laser scanners	0.90	text
head rotation	instance of	and is unable to fully capture three-dimensional motions	0.80	text
Tom Hanks to drive the facial expressions of several different characters	instance of	This has been used on movies such as The Polar Express and Beowulf to allow an actor	0.80	text
nostrils	instance of	this is relatively cumbersome and makes the actors expressions overly driven once the smoothing and filtering have taken place.Active LED Marker technology is currently being us…	0.80	text
the corners of the lips	instance of	this is relatively cumbersome and makes the actors expressions overly driven once the smoothing and filtering have taken place.Active LED Marker technology is currently being us…	0.80	text
eyes	instance of	this is relatively cumbersome and makes the actors expressions overly driven once the smoothing and filtering have taken place.Active LED Marker technology is currently being us…	0.80	text
and wrinkles	instance of	this is relatively cumbersome and makes the actors expressions overly driven once the smoothing and filtering have taken place.Active LED Marker technology is currently being us…	0.80	text
then track them	instance of	this is relatively cumbersome and makes the actors expressions overly driven once the smoothing and filtering have taken place.Active LED Marker technology is currently being us…	0.80	text
deformable surface models pool temporal information to disambiguate	instance of	systems	0.80	text
obtain more robust results	instance of	systems	0.80	text
and thus could not be applied from a single photograph.Markerless face tracking has progressed to commercial systems such as Image Metrics	instance of	systems	0.80	text
which has been applied in movies such as The Matrix sequels	instance of	systems	0.80	text

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