Emotion Intensity Matters: Generating Realistic Expressions in Virtual Humans with CVAEs

This paper introduces a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAEs) approach that generates realistic, controllable emotional facial expressions for virtual humans. Trained on a small dataset of 7,680 samples covering six basic emotions at low and high intensity, the model learns latent representations that preserve key expressive characteristics across intensity levels. The method enables animators to produce emotionally expressive virtual characters without actor performances or manual artistic effort.

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