REAL-TIME ANIMATION OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

摘要

Animation of a character, such as a video game avatar, to reflect facial expressions of an individual in real-time is described herein. An image sensor is configured to generate a video stream, wherein frames of the video stream include a face of an individual. Facial recognition software is utilized to extract data from the video stream that is indicative of facial expressions of the individual. A three-dimensional rig is driven based at least in part upon the data that is indicative of facial expressions of the individual, and an avatar is animated to reflect the facial expressions of the user in real-time based at least in part upon the three-dimensional rig.