A facial image synthesis system for human-machine interface

Author

Morishima, Shigeo ; Sakaguchi, Tatsumi ; Harashima, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

1992

fDate

1-3 Sep 1992

Firstpage

363

Lastpage

368

Abstract

The authors introduce a `face´ interface which is a user-friendly human-machine interface with multi-media and can realize a face-to-face communication environment between the operator and the machine. In this system, a human face appears on the display of the machine and it can talk to the operator with a natural voice. This paper describes the face motion and expression synthesis schemes which can be applied to this `face´ interface. The authors express a human head with a 3D model. The surface model is built by texture mapping with a 2D real image. All the motions and expressions are synthesized and controlled automatically by the movement of some feature points on the model. This `face´ interface is one of the applications of the model based image coding and media conversion schemes

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; solid modelling; 3D model; face motion; face-to-face communication environment; facial image synthesis system; human-machine interface; image coding; media conversion; texture mapping; user interface; Automatic control; Control system synthesis; Displays; Face; Humans; Image generation; Magnetic heads; Man machine systems; Multimedia communication; Surface texture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Communication, 1992. Proceedings., IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0753-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.1992.253860

Filename

253860