<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To track a natural property of a person without being accompanied by an unnatural element capable of disturbing or blocking the natural property of the person, in a device for detecting motion, a characteristic, and properties or the like of a face of the person, generating an image of an object imparted with human appearance on the basis of detection of the face, and animating it. <P>SOLUTION: Image processing technology based on a bunch graph and a model graph efficiently expressing a characteristic of the image as a jet is used. The jet comprises a wavelet transform processed by a landmark location or a node of the image corresponding to the easily identifiable characteristic. The node is acquired and tracked, and the object imparted with the human appearance is animated according to the facial motion of the person. In the detection of the face, by finding the characteristic and the properties of the face of the person by use of jet similarity, the natural property of the person can be tracked without being accompanied by the unnatural element capable of disturbing or blocking the natural property of the person. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT 
WAVELET-BASED FACIAL MOTION CAPTURE FOR ANIMATING OBJECT IMPARTED WITH HUMAN APPEARANCE