Publications of CGIM

"Facial and Character Animation Research at UH CGIM,"
Z. Deng, Q. Gu, Q.Li, X. Ma, and T. Sucontphunt,
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2008 Poster Proceeding, Dublin, Ireland, July 7-9, 2008. pp. 33-34, (refereed lab poster). [Demo Video (Divx)]

"Perceptually Guided Expressive Facial Animation,"
Z. Deng and X. Ma,
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2008, Dublin, Ireland, July 7-9, 2008, pp. 67-76. [bibtex], [Demo Video]

"Compression of Human Motion Capture Data using Motion Pattern Indexing,"
Q. Gu, J. Peng, and Z. Deng,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 27(9), Dec, 2008, (in press). [bibtex],[Demo Video]
Recommended by the Eurographics 2008 Paper Committee.

"Expressive Speech Animation Synthesis with Phoneme-Level Controls,"
Z. Deng and U. Neumann,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 27(6), September, 2008, (in press).[bibtex]
Also published as UH CS Technical Report, UH-CS-08-05.

"Interactive 3D Facial Expression Posing through 2D Portrait Manipulation,"
T. Suconphunt, Z. Mo, U. Neumann, and Z. Deng,
Proc. of Graphics Interface (GI) 2008, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 28-30, 2008, pp. 177-184. Selected as one of the cover images of the proceeding. [bibtex],[Demo Video]

"Facial Motion Capture Editing by Automated Orthogonal Blendshape Construction and Weight Propagation,"
Q. Li and Z. Deng,
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov/December, 2008, (in press). [bibtex], [Demo Video]
Also published as UH CS Technical Report UH-CS-07-12.

"A Novel Visual System for Expressive Facial Motion Data Exploration,"
T. Sucontphunt, X. Yuan, Q. Li and Z. Deng,
Proc. of 2008 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium,Kyoto, Japan, March 5-7, 2008. pp. 103-110. [bibtex],[Demo Video]

2007

"Computer Facial Animation: A Survey,"
Z. Deng and J. Y. Noh,
book chapter, in "Data-Driven 3D Facial Animation" (Springer, 2007).

"Learning expressive human-like head motion sequences from speech,"
C. Busso, Z. Deng, U. Neumann and S. Narayanan,
book chapter, in "Data-Driven 3D Facial Animation" (Springer, 2007).

[Book] "Data-Driven 3D Facial Animation,"
Editors: Z. Deng and U. Neumann,
Springer-Verlag Press, October 2007. ISBN: 978-1-84628-906-4. [bibtex]

"Online Motion Capture Marker Labeling for Multiple Interacting Articulated Targets,"
Q. Yu, Q. Li, and Z. Deng,
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, September 2007, pp. 477-483.
Also published as UH CS Technical Report UH-CS-07-11. [video], [bibtex]

"EduNET: A Prototype Educational System Based on Handwritten and Verbal Interaction for Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis,"
C. Yun, Z. Deng, O. Johnson, and O. Criner,
Proc. of 2007 Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America Annual Conference (RESNA), Phoenix, Arizona, June 2007. [bibtex]

"Rigid Head Motion in Expressive Facial Animation: Analysis and Synthesis,"
C. Busso, Z. Deng, M. Grimm, U. Neumann, and S. Narayanan,
IEEE Transaction on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP) ,March 2007, 15(3), pp. 1075-1086. [bibtex]

2006

"A Methodology for Mapping Mental Spaces of Game Gentres,"
J.P. Lewis, P. Fox, T. Foley, and Z. Deng,
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games 2006, Boston, MA, July 2006, (Refereed Poster).

"eFASE: Expressive Facial Animation Synthesis and Editing with Phoneme-Isomap Controls,"
Z. Deng and U. Neumann
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2006 , Vienna, Austria, Sep 2-4, 2006. pp. 251-259. [video] [bibtex]

"Perceiving Visual Emotions with Speech"
Z. Deng, J. Bailenson, J.P. Lewis, and U. Neumann,
Proc. of the 6th Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2006 , Marina Del Rey, CA, Springer-Verlag LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Volume 4133, August 2006, pp. 107-120. [bibtex]

"Expressive Facial Animation Synthesis by Learning Speech Co-Articulation and Expression Spaces"
Z. Deng, U. Neumann, J.P. Lewis, T.Y. Kim, M. Bulut, and S. Narayanan,
IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12(6), Nov/Dec 2006, pp. 1523-1534. [video I],[video II], [bibtex]

"Animating Blendshape Faces by Cross-Mapping Motion Capture Data"
Z. Deng, P.Y. Chiang, P. Fox, and U. Neumann,
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D) 2006, Redwood City, CA, March 2006, pp. 43-48. [bibtex]

2005

"Automated Eye Motion using Texture Synthesis"
Z. Deng, J.P. Lewis, and U. Neumann,
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (CG&A), 25(2), March/April 2005, pp. 24-30. [bibtex]

"Reducing Blendshape Interference by Selected Motion Attenuation"
J.P. Lewis, J. Mooser, Z. Deng, and U. Neumann,
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D), Washington DC, April 2005, pp.25-29. [video I], [bibtex]

"Natural Head Motion Synthesis driven by Acoustic Prosodic Features"
C. Busso, Z. Deng, U. Neumann, and S. Narayanan,
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), 16(3-4), July 2005, pp. 283-290, special issue for selected papers of IEEE Computer Animaton and Social Agents (CASA) 2005. [video I], [bibtex]

"Synthesizing Speech Animation by Learning Compact Speech Co-Articulation Models"
Z. Deng, J.P. Lewis, and U. Neumann,
Proc. of IEEE Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2005 , NY, June 2005, pp.19-25. [bibtex]

Before 2005

"Automatic Dynamic Expression Synthesis for Speech Animation"
Z. Deng, M. Bulut, U. Neumann, and S. Narayanan,
Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2004, pp.267-274. [bibtex]

"Audio-based Head Motion Synthesis for Avatar-based Telepresence Systems,"
Z. Deng, C. Busso, S. Narayanan, and U. Neumann,
Proc. of ACM SIGMM Workshop on Effective Telepresence (ETP), NY, Oct 2004, pp.24-30.[bibtex]

"Analysis of Emotion Recognition using Facial Expressions, Speech and Multimodal Information"
C. Busso, Z. Deng, S. Yildirim, M. Bulut, C.M. Lee, A. Kazemzaeh, S. Lee, U. Neumann, and S. Narayanan,
Proc. of ACM Int'l Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), State College, PA, pp.205-211. [bibtex]

"Acoustic Study of Emotions Expressed in Speech,"
S. Yildirim, M. Bulut, C.M. Lee, A. Kazemzadeh, C. Busso, Z. Deng, S. Lee, and S. Narayanan,
Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) 2004, Jeju Island, Korean, Oct 2004, pp. 2193-2196. [bibtex]

"Emotion Recognition based on Phoneme Classes,"
C.M. Lee, S. Yildirim, M. Bulut, A. Kazemazadeh, C. Busso, Z. Deng, S. Lee, and S. Narayanan,
Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) 2004, Jeju Island, Korean, Oct 2004, pp. 889-892. [bibtex]

"Practical Eye Movement Model using Texture Synthesis"
Z. Deng, J.P. Lewis, and U. Neumann,
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Technical Sketches, San Diego, CA, July 2003. [bibtex]

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