NDLI: Human-computer interaction and animation system for simple interfacing to virtual environments

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Martyn Jones, C. Singh Dlay, S.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Newcastle upon Tyne Univ., UK (Martyn Jones, C.)
Abstract	Presents MARTI (Man-machine Animation Real-Time Interface) for simple interfacing to virtual environments. The system is designed for automated special-effect animation and human-computer interaction, and can immerse people, irrespective of their expertise, into new technologies. Previous research has used image recognition systems to extract control signals for lip synchronisation; however, the analysis requires that the key articulatory points be highlighted. Researchers have also considered acoustic soundtracks. However, these systems are limited by the accuracy of their speech recognition and must be trained on the single animator's voice. Furthermore, they do not provide timing information, which prevents accurate synchronisation. MARTI overcomes these limitations, allowing automatic lip synchronisation from a single speech input, and without the normal constraints of head-sets, reflectors and complex puppeteer control hardware. The system achieves a lip synchronisation performance in excess of 81% and does not require pre-training to the performer's voice, but instead operates with continuous speech in 'normal' non-laboratory conditions. Furthermore, the system returns timing information, and is invariant to regional accents and dialects, race, age and gender. MARTI introduces novel research from a number of engineering fields in order to realise the first natural interface and animation system to be capable of high performance for real users and real-world applications.
Starting Page	4242
Ending Page	4247
File Size	672703
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780340531
ISSN	1062922X
DOI	10.1109/ICSMC.1997.637366
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-10-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Animation Automatic control Timing Speech Man machine systems Virtual environment Image recognition Data mining Control systems Image analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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