• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.63-69
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• 2001

A corpus-based lip sync algorithm for synthesizing natural face animation is proposed in this paper. To get the lip parameters, some marks were attached some marks to the speaker's face, and the marks' positions were extracted with some Image processing methods. Also, the spoken utterances were labeled with HTK and prosodic information (duration, pitch and intensity) were analyzed. An audio-visual corpus was constructed by combining the speech and image information. The basic unit used in our approach is syllable unit. Based on this Audio-visual corpus, lip information represented by mark's positions was synthesized. That is. the best syllable units are selected from the audio-visual corpus and each visual information of selected syllable units are concatenated. There are two processes to obtain the best units. One is to select the N-best candidates for each syllable. The other is to select the best smooth unit sequences, which is done by Viterbi decoding algorithm. For these process, the two distance proposed between syllable units. They are a phonetic environment distance measure and a prosody distance measure. Computer simulation results showed that our proposed algorithm had good performances. Especially, it was shown that pitch and intensity information is also important as like duration information in lip sync.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.145-148
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• 2000

이 논문에서는 2차원 얼굴 좌표데이터를 합성하기 위한 음성과 영상 동기화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 영상변수의 획득을 위해 화자의 얼굴에 부착된 표시를 추적함으로써 영상변수를 획득하였고, 음소정보뿐만 아니라 운율정보들과의 영상과의 상관관계를 분석하였으며 합성단위로 시각소에 기반한 코퍼스를 선택하고, 주변의 음운환경도 함께 고려하여 연음현상을 모델링하였다. 입력된 코퍼스에 해당되는 패턴들을 lookup table에서 선택하여 주변음소에 대해 기준패턴과의 음운거리를 계산하고 음성파일에서 운율정보들을 추출해 운율거리를 계산한 후 가중치를 주어 패턴과의 거리를 얻는다. 이중가장 근접한 다섯개의 패턴들의 연결부분에 대해 Viterbi Search를 수행하여 최적의 경로를 선택하고 주성분분석된 영상정보를 복구하고 시간정보를 조절한다.