• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2002

This paper defines the visual basic speech units, visemes and investigates various visual features of a lip for the effective Korean lipreading. First, we analyzed the visual characteristics of the Korean vowels from the database of the lip image sequences obtained from the multi-speakers, thereby giving a definition of seven Korean vowel visemes. Various spatio-temporal features of a lip are extracted from the feature points located on both inner and outer lip contours of image sequences and their classification performances are evaluated by using a hidden Markov model based classifier for effective lipreading. The experimental results for recognizing the Korean visemes have demonstrated that the feature victor containing the information of inner and outer lip contours can be effectively applied to lipreading and also the direction and magnitude of the movement of a lip feature point over time is quite useful for Korean lipreading.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.70-73
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 한국어에 대한 실시간 음소 인식을 통한 Lip Synch 구현에 필수요소인 Viseme(Visual Phoneme)을 한국어의 음운학적 접근 방법을 통해 제시하고, Lip Synch에서 입술의 모양에 결정적인 영향을 미치는 모음에 대한 모음 인식 실험 및 결과 분석을 한다.모음인식 실험에서는 한국어 음소 51개 각각에 대해 3개의 State로 이루어진 CHMM (Continilous Hidden Makov Model)으로 모델링하고, 각각의 음소가 병렬로 연결되어진 음소네트워크를 사용한다. 입력된 음성은 12차 MFCC로 특징을 추출하고, Viterbi 알고리즘을 인식 알고리즘으로 사용했으며, 인식과정에서 Bigrim 문법과 유사한 구조의 음소배열 규칙을 사용해서 인식률과 인식 속도를 향상시켰다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.127-134
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• 2018

In this paper, we have developed the Auto Lip-Sync Maya plug-in for extracting Korean phonemes from voice data and text information based on Korean and produce high quality 3D lip-sync animation using divided phonemes. In the developed system, phoneme separation was classified into 8 vowels and 13 consonants used in Korean, referring to 49 phonemes provided by Microsoft Speech API engine SAPI. In addition, the pronunciation of vowels and consonants has variety Mouth Shapes, but the same Viseme can be applied to some identical ones. Based on this, we have developed Auto Lip-sync Maya Plug-in based on Python to enable lip-sync animation to be implemented automatically at once.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.461-470
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• 2023

While speech animation generation employing deep learning has been actively researched for English, there has been no prior work for Korean. Given the fact, this paper for the very first time employs supervised deep learning to generate Korean speech animation. By doing so, we find out the significant effect of deep learning being able to make speech animation research come down to speech recognition research which is the predominating technique. Also, we study the way to make best use of the effect for Korean speech animation generation. The effect can contribute to efficiently and efficaciously revitalizing the recently inactive Korean speech animation research, by clarifying the top priority research target. This paper performs this process: (i) it chooses blendshape animation technique, (ii) implements the deep-learning model in the master-servant pipeline of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) module and the facial action coding (FAC) module, (iii) makes Korean speech facial motion capture dataset, (iv) prepares two comparison deep learning models (one model adopts the English ASR module, the other model adopts the Korean ASR module, however both models adopt the same basic structure for their FAC modules), and (v) train the FAC modules of both models dependently on their ASR modules. The user study demonstrates that the model which adopts the Korean ASR module and dependently trains its FAC module (getting 4.2/5.0 points) generates decisively much more natural Korean speech animations than the model which adopts the English ASR module and dependently trains its FAC module (getting 2.7/5.0 points). The result confirms the aforementioned effect showing that the quality of the Korean speech animation comes down to the accuracy of Korean ASR.