Converting Faces by Preserving the Expression from the Actor's Viewpoint Based on Examples Obtained from User Interactions

• Published in: Shisutemu Seigyo Jouhou Gakkai rombunshi Vol. 14; no. 6; pp. 308 - 315
• Main Authors: KONDO, Takashi, KAKUSHO, Koh, MINOH, Michihiko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese; English
• Published: THE INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS, CONTROL AND INFORMATION ENGINEERS (ISCIE) 2001
• Subjects: facial expression recognition; human interface; human-machine interaction; user modeling face-to-face communication
• ISSN: 1342-5668; 2185-811X
• DOI: 10.5687/iscie.14.308

This article discusses how to realize the process of converting the user's face into an avatar's face by preserving the expression. The objective of this work is to make this process reflect the user's subjective view about correspondence between the facial images of the user and the avatar. In this article, it is proposed to adapt the process to the user's view through interactions with the user. This is realized by an example-based approach, in which the correspondence between the facial images of the user and the avatar is estimated from its examples obtained from the interactions with the user. The process increasingly reflects the user's view with the number of examples.