{"id":12110,"date":"2015-08-06T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/creating-an-avatar-with-a-smartphone-camera\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:39:32","slug":"creating-an-avatar-with-a-smartphone-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.ggba.swiss\/en\/creating-an-avatar-with-a-smartphone-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating an avatar with a smartphone camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b>EPFL researchers have developed a system allowing to create a fully personalized 3D facial avatar from a video taken with your smartphone.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Researchers at <link http:>EPFL\u2019s Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory<\/link> have developed a new technology allowing smartphone users to generate their animated digital double just by taking a video and a couple of selfies. \u201cAll you have to do is take a video of yourself and then snap a few more shots to get facial expressions, and our algorithm does the rest,\u201d explains researcher Alexandru Ichim in a <link http:>press release<\/link>. While creating an avatar is extremely easy for the user, condensing an expensive and complex process to use only a smartphone camera was a real challenge for the researchers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">This innovative technology has a number of possible applications in the near future, ranging from gaming and virtual reality to video conferences and even avatar therapy for people suffering from schizophrenia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Alexandru Ichim and his colleagues will present their project at the 42<sup>nd<\/sup> International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (<link http:>SIGGRAPH<\/link>) taking place in Los Angeles from 9-13 August, which is widely recognized as the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPFL researchers have developed a system allowing to create a fully personalized 3D facial avatar from a video taken with your smartphone. 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