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FACIAL ANALYSIS AND ANIMATION
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British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
One-Day Symposium at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton St, Edinburgh, UK
June 10th, 2009
Facial Analysis and Animation
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/faa/
http://www.bmva.org/
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN, SEE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS.
Chairs: Darren Cosker (Uni. of Bath), Gregor Hofer (Uni. of
Edinburgh), Michael Berger (Uni of Edinburgh), Nataliya Nadtoka (Uni.
of Surrey)
**************************Programme ***************************
9.00 Registration and Coffee
9.30 Welcome and Introduction
Session 1
9.35 Invited Talk: Modelling the Appearance of Human Skin
Tim Weyrich (UCL)
10.15 Shape-from-shading and Morphable Models for Estimating Facial
Shape and Reflectance from Single Images
Will Smith (Uni. of York)
10.35 In Search of the Uncanny Valley
Frank Pollick (Uni. of Glasgow)
10.55 Coffee
Session 2
11.15 Invited Talk: Facial Tracking
Iain Matthews (Disney Research)
11.55 Visio-lization: Generating Novel Facial Images
Umar Mohammed, Simon Prince and Jan Kautz (UCL)
12.15 Towards Dynamic 3D Face Transformations
Bernard Tiddeman, David Perret, David Hunter and Yu Meng (Uni. of
St Andrews)
12.35 Lunch, Posters and Demos
Session 3
2.05 Invited Talk: Performance-Driven Facial Animation
Steven Caulkin (Image Metrics)
2.45 An Automated Approach to Establishing Dense Correspondence for
3D Facial Models
Guofu Xiang, Xiangyang Ju and Patrik O’B Holt (Robert Gordon Uni.)
3.05 Multi-view and Real-time Point-Based Rendering of
Photo-Realistic Faces
Sajid Farooq and J. Paul Siebert (Uni. of Glasgow)
3.25 Coffee
Session 4
3.45 Synthesising Visual Speech Using Active Appearance Models:
Speech-, Text- and Video-Driven Approaches
Barry Theobald (Uni. of East Anglia)
4.05 Model-based Synthesis of Visual Speech Movements from 3D Video
James Edge, A. Hilton and P. Jackson (Uni. of Surrey)
4.25 Cloning Speakers’ Articulation, Shape and Appearance
Gérard Bailly, Pierre Badin, Frédéric Eisel, Oxana Govokhina,
Christophe Savariaux and Yuliya Tarabalka (GIPSA-Lab, CNRS & Uni. of
Grenoble)
4.45 Partial Differential Equations for Face Modelling and Animation
Hassan Ugail, G. Gonzales Castro (Uni. of Bradford), P. Willis and
Y. Sheng (Uni. Bath)
5.05 Close
************************** Posters ****************************
Speaker Dependent Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition
Sanaul Haq and Phillp J.B. Jackson (Uni. of Surrey)
Animating Believable Facial Expressions: Is it Possible to Choreograph
Perceptually Valid Emotional Expressions?
Robin J.S. Sloan, Brian Robinson and Malcolm Cook (Uni. of Abertay)
Highly Realistic Face Animation Driven by Stereovision Data
Marie-Odile Berger, Brigitte Wrobel, Blaise Potard and Vincent Colotte
(LORIA Laboratory)
Robust Facial Detection and Tracking for Head Pose Estimation in a Novel
Multimodal Interface for Social Skills Learning
Jingying Chen (Uni. of Edinburgh)
Towards Realistic Facial Animation
Alexander Davies, Colin Dalton, David Gibson and Neill Campbell (Uni. of
Bristol)
Facial Animation in Dogs
A. A. Navarro Newball, G. Wyvill and B. McCane (Uni. of Otago)
Roles in Articulation for Speech Animation
Veena D. Singampalli and Phillip J.B. Jackson (Uni. of Surrey)
Sketch-Based Facial Animation
Orn Gunnarsson and Steve Maddock (Uni. of Sheffield)
Nonlinear 3D Dynamic Facial Animation
Darren Cosker (Uni. of Bath)
Speech-Synchronized Animation at CSTR
Michael Berger, Gregor Hofer, Hiroshi Shimodaira (Uni. of Edinburgh)
Emotion Analysis for Expressive 3D Video Speech Synthesis
Nataliya Nadtoka, James Edge, Adrian Hilton and Phillip Jackson (Uni. of
Surrey)
***************************** Industry Demo *****************************
4D capture technology by Dimensional Imaging
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