MEDUSA — A Facial Modeling and Animation System

We present a system for photo-realistic facial modeling and animation, which includes several tools that facilitate necessary tasks such as mesh processing, texture registration, and assembling of facial components. The resulting head model reflects the anatomical structure of the human head including skull, skin, and muscles. Semi-automatic generation of high-quality models from scan data for physics-based animation becomes possible with little effort. A state-of-the-art speech synchronization technique is integrated into our system, resulting in realistic speech animations that can be rendered at real-time frame rates on current PC hardware.