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        Facial Animation Controller Using Generative Adversarial Networks

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        2019
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        Sietsma, L.H.
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        Summary
        We introduce a new method to create a facial an-imation controller. We find a high-level control-space bottom-up from data using the generativepart of a Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Net-work (WGAN). By training a WGAN on facetracking data from the IEMOCAP corpus, we showthat a WGAN is able to learn the behavior of thehuman face. By training the WGAN on differentemotions, we show that the WGAN is successful atlearning human face movement matching the emo-tions that it was trained on. We also analyse the be-havior of the latent space. We found that the gen-erator provides control over certain aspects of theface and sometimes even relates to emotions. Byimplementing sliders for the latent space variableswe were able to create a facial animation controllerusing the generative part of the WGAN.
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        https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/34859
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