AUDIO-TO-VISUAL CONVERSION FOR MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION

Although humans rely primarily on hearing to process speech, they can also extract a great deal of information with their eyes through lipre ading, This skill becomes extremely important when the acoustic signal is degraded by noise, It would, therefore, be beneficial to find meth ods to reinforce acoustic speech with a synthesized visual signal for high noise environments, This paper addresses the interaction between acoustic speech and visible speech, Algorithms for converting audible speech into visible speech will be examined, and applications which ca n utilize this conversion process will be presented, Our results demon strate that it is possible to animate a natural-looking talking head u sing acoustic speech as an input.