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FACIAL EXPRESSION RE-TARGETING FROM A SINGLE CHARACTER

Video retargeting for digital face animation is used in virtual reality, social media, gaming, movies, and video conference, aiming to animate avatars’ facial expressions based on videos of human faces. The standard method to represent facial expressions for 3D characters is by blendshapes, a vector of weights representing the avatar’s neutral shape and its variations under facial expressions, e.g., smile, puff, blinking.