A Facial Animation Interactive Framework with Facial Expressions, Lip Synchronization and Eye Behavior

Figure 1: Example of characters performance in our prototype during an expressive talk. In this paper we describe our approach of generating convincing and empathetic facial animation. Our goal is to develop a robust facial animation platform that can be scalable, usable and easily ex-tended, in order to allow integration of research on the area and also the direct incorporation of the characters in interactive applications, such as Embodied Conversational Agents and games. We have de-veloped a framework capable of animating MPEG-4 parametrized faces easily through high-level description of facial actions and be-haviors. We also present a case study which integrates computer vision techniques in order to provide interaction between the user and a character, that interacts with different facial actions according to detected events in the application