COMPUTER-animated characters will soon be getting a lot more lippy. Software developed at MIT allows animated characters to mouth the appropriate lip movements for the words they’re saying, even if it hasn’t encountered them before.
The software will also make it possible for cellphones to realistically animate images of your friends’ faces, making them appear to read out text messages, for instance. It may even help Hollywood studios to reuse footage of long-dead actors by seamlessly adding new dialogue.
What makes the system unique, says Tony Ezzat at MIT’s Center for Biological and Computational Learning, is the way it extracts…
