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Stills of the talking head of Robert Burns. A 3D digital facial depiction of the Scottish poet driven by performance transfer.
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It has been proposed that we are entering the age of postmortalism, where digital immortality is a credible option. The desire to overcome death has occupied humanity for centuries, and even though biological immortality is still impossible, recent technological advances have enabled possible eternal life in the metaverse. In palaeoanthropology and...
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... the Neanderthal's voice and expression were performed by Andy Serkis and transferred to facial depiction by the performance capture team. Another example includes the 4D portrait of Robert Burns (Figure 4), created by the authors of this paper [70], where the expression, voice, and movement of Scots poet, Rab Wilson, were transferred onto the 3D facial depiction (created from a cast of his skull) to produce a digital simulation of Burns reading one of his own poems [71]. Although these 4D transfer techniques are innovative and visually stimulating, they are also time consuming, including the use of expensive and resource-heavy equipment and the necessary additional input of animators. ...
