Patent ID: 8842933

Claim:
A method comprising capturing facial surface using marker patterns laid out on the facial surface by adapting the marker patterns to contours of the facial surface and motion range of a head comprising: generating a facial action coding system (FACS) matrix by capturing FACS poses; generating a pattern to wrap over the facial surface using the FACS poses as a guide; capturing and tracking marker motions of the pattern; stabilizing the marker motions of the pattern using a head stabilization transform to remove head motions from the marker motions; generating and applying a plurality of FACS matrix weights to the stabilized marker motions; tracking and selecting a set of 2-D markers to derive an overall head motion in a 2-D screen space; and computing a stabilization transform for projecting the marker motions from a 3-D space to the 2-D screen space to stabilize the head calculated from the set of 2-D markers.