{"id":7578,"date":"2024-06-05T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T12:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jzhang.bournemouth.ac.uk\/?page_id=7578"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:05:50","slug":"leveraging-llm-capabilities-for-ivc-in-game-planning-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jzhang.bournemouth.ac.uk\/?page_id=7578","title":{"rendered":"Deep learning based facial modeling and animation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"7578\" class=\"elementor elementor-7578\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50b46fd elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50b46fd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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