Facial Media for Non-verbal Communication in Production Processes

We took the face, especially eye or eye gaze, into consideration for discussing the non-verbal interface media. We first proposed a passive eye-camera system based on the facial image processing such as Hough transform for iris recognition. Next we proposed a method for generating eye-contacted facial images by computer image processing for enforcing and improving the quality of facial, nonverbal communication on the net such as VIDEO Conference. Finally we applied these two proposed methods to the real environment of E-mail daily conference in the production process of the company, and shortly discussed on the prospects of the facial new media on the net.