We have developed an easy and cost-effective system that constructs textured 3D animated face models from videos with minimal user interaction. Our system first takes, with an ordinary video camera, images of a face of a person sitting in front of the camera turning the head from one side to the other. After five manual clicks on two images to tell the system where the eye corners, nose top and mouth corners are, the system automatically generates a realistic looking 3D human head model and the constructed model can be animated immediately (different poses, facial expressions and talking). A user, with a PC and a video camera, can use our system to generate hisher face model in a few minutes. The face model can then be imported in hisher favorite game, and the user sees themselves and their friends take part in the game they are playing. We will demonstrate the system on a laptop computer live at the conference, and participants can try it to model their own faces.

The VideoMouse is a mouse that uses a camera as its input sensor. A real-time vision algorithm determines the six degree-of-freedom mouse posture, consisting of 2D motion, tilt in the forward/back and left/right axes, rotation of the mouse about its vertical axis, and some limited height sensing. Thus, a familiar 2D device can be extended for three-dimensional manipulation, while remaining suitable for standard 2D GUI tasks. We describe techniques for mouse functionality, 3D manipulation, navigating large 2D spaces, and using the camera for lightweight scanning tasks.