Online Modeling for Real-Time Facial Animation

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable code for real-time facial animation, executable by one or more processors to:

• provide a dynamic expression model that includes a plurality of blendshapes;
• receive tracking data from a plurality of frames in a temporal sequence, the tracking data corresponding to facial expressions of a user;
• estimate tracking parameters based on the tracing data from each of the plurality of frames, the tracking parameters corresponding to one or more weight values of the blendshape;
• and
• generate a graphical representation of a particular facial expression of the user based on the estimated tracking parameters.

A system for real-time facial animation, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more storage devices coupled to the one or more processors, and comprising computer readable code executable by the one or more processors to:
• provide a dynamic expression model that includes a plurality of blendshapes;
• receive tracking data from a plurality of frames in a temporal sequence, the tracking data corresponding to facial expressions of a user;
• estimate tracking parameters based on the tracing data from each of the plurality of frames, the tracking parameters corresponding to one or more weight values of the blendshape;
• and
• generate a graphical representation of a particular facial expression of the user based on the estimated tracking parameters.