ايران ويج

Ian Buck :

My undergraduate thesis at Princeton University explored the fesability of doing real-time teleconferencing with animated characters instead of live video. Transmitting live video over the web presents a host of problems given the limited bandwidth of the internet. This project demonstrated that you can use a small assortment of hand drawn images and which can be morphed to match the user's expression in real-time. This required implemented a high speed facial tracker, the development of a image morphing algorithm, and a facial classifier to determine user expression. All of these tasked were performed in 1/30 of a second. This work was done at Princeton University with Alison Klein, Adam Finkelstein, David Salesin, Richard Szeliski, and Chuck Jacobs.