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    • Computer graphics
    • Human-computer interaction
    • Affective computing

    Background:

    • Performance-driven animation in games and movies is established.
    • Capturing human emotions for avatars is largely solved.
    • Individual variations in expressing emotions are significant.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a method for extracting personal facial movement styles from posed images.
    • To investigate if clustering methods can detect and group these unique expression styles.
    • To utilize extracted styles for generating expressions in virtual humans.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized K-Means and Gaussian mixture model clustering.
    • Applied clustering to analyze similarities in individuals' facial expressions.
    • Extracted personal facial movement styles from posed images.

    Main Results:

    • Facial expression styles were found to exist.
    • Clustering methods successfully grouped these distinct styles.
    • Generated facial expressions in virtual humans were evaluated by users.

    Conclusions:

    • Personal facial expression styles are quantifiable and detectable.
    • Computational clustering is an effective method for grouping these styles.
    • The findings contribute to more personalized and realistic virtual human expressions.