Exploring the uncanny valley effect with talking heads

Takaaki Kuratate; Kathryn Ayers; Jeesun Kim; Denis Burnham

Exploring the uncanny valley effect with talking heads

Takaaki Kuratate, Kathryn Ayers, Jeesun Kim, Denis Burnham

MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

Here the "Uncanny Valley", where falling just short of perfection in creating synthetic humans exacts a large negative reaction, is explored with talking head animations focusing on naturalness in speech, face model and face motion. We discuss possible techniques to manipulate naturalness for each of these aspects. Outcomes of this method will provide insights for the choice of the degree of realism or naturalness required for various talking heads.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	529
Number of pages	1
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - Brisbane, QLD, Australia Duration: 22 Sept 2008 → 26 Sept 2008

Keywords

Facial animation
Uncanny valley

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