Keith Waters

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Keith Waters (born 1962, England), formerly of LifeFX Networks, Inc., has been a pioneer in facial animation for the past 20 years. He pioneered the development of a muscle-based model for facial animation including a physically-based skin tissue model as well as a visual text-to-speech system called DECface. He is co-author of "Computer Facial Animation", the definitive guide to facial animation originally published in 1995.

Keith Waters was born in Kent, England. He received his Ph.D from Middlesex University (UK) in 1988 for his work on 3D facial character animation and is currently Director of Research at Orange Labs Boston MA, USA. Keith is considered an expert in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and has published numerous scientific papers on novel applications. He is currently actively engaged with the W3C is the development of Web standards for mobile web technologies.