Media type: Text; E-Article Title: Optimization of an image-based talking head system Contributor: Liu, Kang [Author]; Ostermann, Jörn [Author] imprint: Heidelberg : Springer Verlag, 2009 Published in: Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2009 (2009) Issue: published Version Language: English DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/1743; https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/174192 ISSN: 1687-4714 Keywords: Image-Based Talking Head ; Pareto Optimization Origination: Footnote: Diese Datenquelle enthält auch Bestandsnachweise, die nicht zu einem Volltext führen. Description: 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 mouth images and their related information. The synthesis part generates natural looking facial animations from phonetic transcripts of text. A critical issue of the synthesis is the unit selection which selects and concatenates these appropriate mouth images from the database such that they match the spoken words of the talking head. Selection is based on lip synchronization and the similarity of consecutive images. The unit selection is refined in this paper, and Pareto optimization is used to train the unit selection. Experimental results of subjective tests show that most people cannot distinguish our facial animations from real videos. Copyright © 2009 K. Liu and J. Ostermann. ; EC/FP6/511568 Access State: Open Access Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)