Title :
Video Conference 3D Display That Fuses Images to Replicate Gaze Direction
Author :
Iso, Kazuyuki ; Ozawa, Shiro ; Date, Munekazu ; Takada, Hideaki ; Andoh, Yasuko ; Matsuura, Norihiko
Author_Institution :
NTT CyberSpace Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a new video conference display that replicates the eye contact back channel information available to the attendees of actual conferences. The display consists of multiple screens that present remote participants´ faces so as to show their gaze direction, i.e., the direction in which they are looking. We introduce a prototype video conference terminal with two screens and demonstrate that it offers eye contact with directivity of up to 17 deg. In addition, the screens replicate the participants´ gaze direction from the relative positions of the face and eyes.
Keywords :
image fusion; screens (display); three-dimensional displays; eye contact back channel information; gaze direction replication; image fusion; multiple screen; video conference 3D display; video conference terminal; Cameras; Conferences; Face recognition; Fuses; Head; Prototypes; Three dimensional displays; 3D display; Communication systems; depth-fused 3D (DFD); displays;
Journal_Title :
Display Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JDT.2012.2193662
