A study of real-time image processing method for treating human emotion by facial expression

Author

Yang, D. ; Kunihiro, T. ; Shimoda, H. ; Yoshikawa, H.

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Energy Sci., Kyoto Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

360

Abstract

The aim of this study is to develop image processing methodologies for recognition of human facial expression to understand human emotion, and for the synthesis of facial expression to express emotion by computer graphics. With respect to the recognition of facial expression, a real-time image processing system is developed to calculate the distance changes of various feature points on the face and then correlate them with fuzzy rules to infer the degree of six basic emotion factors. On the other hand, a so-called muscle model process is adopted for effective image synthesis for facial expression, muscle contractions are simulated and animated as facial expression, based on a facial action coding system

Keywords

computer graphics; feature extraction; gesture recognition; real-time systems; computer graphics; distance changes; facial action coding system; facial expression synthesis; feature points; fuzzy rules; human emotion; human facial expression recognition; image synthesis; muscle contraction animation; muscle contraction simulation; muscle model process; real-time image processing method; Computer graphics; Emotion recognition; Face recognition; Facial animation; Fuzzy systems; Humans; Image processing; Image recognition; Muscles; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.825285

Filename

825285