Realistic digital avatars are becoming increasingly relevant, for example in virtual and augmented reality applications, video conferencing, films and computer games, or in medicine. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, are now presenting two novel methods at two of the world’s leading computer graphics conferences, SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia. These methods enable the generation of photorealistic full-body avatars and allow head avatars to be controlled using only audio tracks.
Speech-to-expression: Controlling digital head avatars via audio signals
