Avatar animation, social networking and touch screen applications

摘要

Systems and methods may provide for detecting a condition with respect to one or more frames of a video signal associated with a set of facial motion data and modifying, in response to the condition, the set of facial motion data to indicate that the one or more frames lack facial motion data. Additionally, an avatar animation may be initiated based on the modified set of facial motion data. In one example, the condition is one or more of a buffer overflow condition and a tracking failure condition.

主权项

1. An apparatus to animate avatars, comprising:
a frame monitor, implemented as least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality logic hardware, to detect a condition with respect to one or more frames of a video signal associated with a set of facial motion data related to an image capture of a face of one or more individuals; a motion module, implemented as least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality logic hardware, to modify, in response to the condition, the set of facial motion data to indicate that the one or more frames of the video signal associated with the captured image of the one or more individuals lack facial motion data; and an avatar module, implemented as least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality logic hardware, to initiate an avatar animation based on the modified set of facial motion data, wherein frames located proximate to the frames lacking facial motion data are leveraged to compute replacement facial motion data for the frames lacking facial motion data.