AN UPDATED PARAMETERISED FACE

During the last decade, CANDIDE has been a popular face model in many research labs around the world. One reason has been that it is a very simple model, another that it is publically available. There are, however, drawbacks with the model, mostly due to its simplicity. Also, the emergence of the MPEG-4 standard for face animation has actualized the need of an update, making the model compatible with the facial animation and definition parameters (FAPs and FDPs) defined in MPEG-4. This report documents an updated version of C ANDIDE, fulfilling the demands set by MPEG-4 and being somewhat less crude. The relation between the C ANDIDE entities (vertices, Action Units) and the MPEG-4 parameters are available in tables in the appendices.