I think we are talking about CGI faces here and thats just not doable yet and this research won't change a thing about it.
The last movie I remember having a CG face was Clu in Tron Legacy which certainly was state of the art CG, unfortunately 'state of the art'[1] in face modeling/animation is just not perfect yet.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvaGd4KqlvQ