Multimedia is more than simple combination of text, audio, images, graphics and video.
The interaction among these media, and their interaction with users, transporting networks, and storage media, are what really make our research exciting. We have created several key technologies for audio-visual communication between the humans, and between the human and the computer. We have developed a system to create lip-synchronized facial images by analyzing the acoustic speech. This technology has been successfully used to resolve the lip-synchronization problem in video conferencing. Other applications include dubbing of foreign movies and automated lip-synchronization for cartoon production.