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Book Analysis  Synthesis  and Retargeting of Facial Expressions

Download or read book Analysis Synthesis and Retargeting of Facial Expressions written by Erika S. Chuang and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Automatic Facial Expression Analysis Using Retargeted Optical Flow

Download or read book Automatic Facial Expression Analysis Using Retargeted Optical Flow written by Cindy Y. Fang and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Facial Expression Analysis and Synthesis for Model Based Coding

Download or read book Facial Expression Analysis and Synthesis for Model Based Coding written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analysis  Interpretation and Synthesis of Facial Expressions

Download or read book Analysis Interpretation and Synthesis of Facial Expressions written by Irfan Aziz Essa and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding Facial Expressions in Communication

Download or read book Understanding Facial Expressions in Communication written by Manas K. Mandal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume provides a holistic understanding of the cultural, psychological, neurological and biological elements involved in human facial expressions and of computational models in the analyses of expressions. It includes methodological and technical discussions by leading scholars across the world on the subject. Automated and manual analysis of facial expressions, involving cultural, gender, age and other variables, is a growing and important area of research with important implications for cross-cultural interaction and communication of emotion, including security and clinical studies. This volume also provides a broad framework for the understanding of facial expressions of emotion with inputs drawn from the behavioural sciences, computational sciences and neurosciences.

Book Facial Expressions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandra E. Carter
  • Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781620815342
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Facial Expressions written by Sandra E. Carter and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human face is a dynamic canvas upon which humans voluntarily and involuntarily display their most intimate feelings. Observers scrutinise the faces of others to make inferences about their emotions, intentions and thoughts. In this book, the authors explore the dynamic patterns, impairments and social perceptions of facial expressions. Topics include linking infant facial expressions of emotion to respective parental attention; facial expression during interpersonal interactions that are pro-social and criminally deviant; situational and perceiver characteristics that influence the processing and decoding of facial expressions of emotion; facial expression and eye gaze direction; image based facial expression synthesis; and the analysis and recognition of facial expressions in videos using facial shape deformation.

Book Facial Expression Analysis and Synthesis for Model Based Code

Download or read book Facial Expression Analysis and Synthesis for Model Based Code written by Lijun Yin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures

Download or read book Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures written by Wenyi Zhao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 30 years, face recognition and related problems such as face detection/tracking and facial expression recognition have attracted researchers from both the engineering and psychology communities. In addition, extensive research has been carried out to study hand and body gestures. The understanding of how humans perceive these important cues has significant scientific value and extensive applications. For example, human-computer interaction, visual surveillance, and smart video indexing are active application areas. Aiming towards putting such amazing perception capability onto computer systems, researchers have made substantial progress. However, technological challenges still exist in many aspects. Following a format similar to the IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG) 2003, this one-day workshop (AMFG 2005) provided a focused international forum to bring together well-known researchers and research groups to review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of faces and gestures, to discuss the challenges that we are facing, and to explore future directions. Overall, 30 papers were selected from 90 submitted manuscripts. The topics of these papers range from feature representation, robust recognition, learning, and 3D modeling to psychology. In addition, two invited talks were given, by Prof. Kanade and Dr. Phillips. The technical program was organized into four oral sessions and two poster sessions. This workshop would not have been possible without the timely reviews provided by the members of the Technical Program Committee under a tight schedule. October 2005 Wenyi Zhao Shaogang Gong Xiaoou Tang

Book The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing written by Rafael A. Calvo and published by Oxford Library of Psychology. This book was released on 2015 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing is a definitive reference in the burgeoning field of affective computing (AC), a multidisciplinary field encompassing computer science, engineering, psychology, education, neuroscience, and other disciplines. AC research explores how affective factors influence interactions between humans and technology, how affect sensing and affect generation techniques can inform our understanding of human affect, and on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems involving affect at their core. The volume features 41 chapters and is divided into five sections: history and theory, detection, generation, methodologies, and applications. Section 1 begins with the making of AC and a historical review of the science of emotion. The following chapters discuss the theoretical underpinnings of AC from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Section 2 examines affect detection or recognition, a commonly investigated area. Section 3 focuses on aspects of affect generation, including the synthesis of emotion and its expression via facial features, speech, postures, and gestures. Cultural issues are also discussed. Section 4 focuses on methodological issues in AC research, including data collection techniques, multimodal affect databases, formats for the representation of emotion, crowdsourcing techniques, machine learning approaches, affect elicitation techniques, useful AC tools, and ethical issues. Finally, Section 5 highlights applications of AC in such domains as formal and informal learning, games, robotics, virtual reality, autism research, health care, cyberpsychology, music, deception, reflective writing, and cyberpsychology. This compendium will prove suitable for use as a textbook and serve as a valuable resource for everyone with an interest in AC."--

Book Deep Facial Expression Modeling and 3D Motion Retargeting from 2D Images

Download or read book Deep Facial Expression Modeling and 3D Motion Retargeting from 2D Images written by Bindita Chaudhuri and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facial expression modeling and motion retargeting, which involves estimating the 3D motion of a human face from a 2D image and transferring it to a 3D character, is an important problem in both computer graphics and computer vision. Traditional methods fit a 3D morphable model (3DMM) to the face, which requires an additional face detection step, does not ensure perceptual validity of the retargeted expression, and has limited modeling capacity (hence fails to generalize well to in-the-wild data). In this thesis, I present five deep learning based approaches to overcome these limitations: (1) a supervised network to jointly predict the bounding box locations and 3DMM parameters for multiple faces in a 2D image, (2) a self-supervised framework to jointly learn a personalized face model per user and per-frame facial motion parameters from in-the-wild videos of user expressions, (3) a multimodal approach that leverages both audio and video information to create a 4D facial avatar using dynamic neural radiance fields, (4) a semi-supervised multi-stage system that leverages a database of hand-animated character expressions to predict a character's rig parameters from a user's facial expressions, and (5) an unsupervised cycle-consistent generative adversarial network to directly predict the character's 3D geometry with retargeted expression. Experimental results have shown that these approaches outperform state-of-the-art methods in terms of retargeting accuracy. Applications of these approaches include avatar animation for visual storytelling or virtual conversation, motion capture films, and social AR/VR experience.

Book What the Face Reveals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Ekman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2005-04-14
  • ISBN : 0199792720
  • Pages : 663 pages

Download or read book What the Face Reveals written by Paul Ekman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-14 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While we have known for centuries that facial expressions can reveal what people are thinking and feeling, it is only recently that the face has been studied scientifically for what it can tell us about internal states, social behavior, and psychopathology. Today's widely available, sophisticated measuring systems have allowed us to conduct a wealth of new research on facial behavior that has contributed enormously to our understanding of the relationship between facial expression and human psychology. The chapters in this volume present the state-of-the-art in this research. They address key topics and questions, such as the dynamic and morphological differences between voluntary and involuntary expressions, the relationship between what people show on their faces and what they say they feel, whether it is possible to use facial behavior to draw distinctions among psychiatric populations, and how far research on automating facial measurement has progressed. The book also includes follow-up commentary on all of the original research presented and a concluding integration and critique of all the contributions made by Paul Ekman. As an essential reference for all those working in the area of facial analysis and expression, this volume will be indispensable for a wide range of professionals and students in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral medicine.

Book Computational Techniques for Human Smile Analysis

Download or read book Computational Techniques for Human Smile Analysis written by Hassan Ugail and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors discuss the recent developments in computational techniques for automated non-invasive facial emotion detection and analysis with particular focus on the smile. By way of applications, they discuss how genuine and non-genuine smiles can be inferred, how gender is encoded in a smile and how it is possible to use the dynamics of a smile itself as a biometric feature. It is often said that the face is a window to the soul. Bearing a metaphor of this nature in mind, one might find it intriguing to understand, if any, how the physical, behavioural as well as emotional characteristics of a person could be decoded from the face itself. With the increasing deductive power of machine learning techniques, it is becoming plausible to address such questions through the development of appropriate computational frameworks. Though there are as many as over twenty five categories of emotions one could express, regardless of the ethnicity, gender or social class, across humanity, there exist six common emotions – namely happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, anger and disgust - all of which can be inferred from facial expressions. Of these facial expressions, the smile is the most prominent in social interactions. The smile bears important ramifications with beliefs such as it makes one more attractive, less stressful in upsetting situations and employers tending to promote people who smile often. Even pockets of scientific research appear to be forthcoming to validate such beliefs and claims, e.g. the smile intensity observed in photographs positively correlates with longevity, the ability to win a fight and whether a couple would stay married. Thus, it appears that many important personality traits are encoded in the smile itself. Therefore, the deployment of computer based algorithms for studying the human smiles in greater detail is a plausible avenue for which the authors have dedicated the discussions in this book.

Book Facial Expressions

Download or read book Facial Expressions written by Flávia de Lima Osório and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together contributions from different researchers on the theme of facial expressions, with an emphasis on emotional expressions, which may be of interest to professionals in neuroscience, technology and psychopathology. The reader will find theoretical reviews and experimental studies, with different focuses, among them: instruments of measures for use with adults, adolescents and children; training programs to develop emotional competence in children with emotional and behavioral problems, neural and psychophysical aspects associated with the recognition of facial expressions of emotion; emotional contagions, and studies on positive first impressions. Clinical researchers who wish to learn more about and / or update themselves on the subject will benefit from this text.

Book Visual Perception of Emotional and Conversational Facial Expressions

Download or read book Visual Perception of Emotional and Conversational Facial Expressions written by Kathrin Kaulard and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the defining attributes of the human species is sophisticated communication, for which facial expressions are crucial. Traditional research has so far mainly investigated a minority of 6 basic emotional expressions displayed as pictures. Despite the important insights of this approach, its ecological validity is limited: facial movements express more than emotions, and facial expressions are more than just pictures. The objective of the present thesis is therefore to improve the understanding of facial expression recognition by investigating the internal representations of a large range of facial expressions, displayed both as static pictures and as dynamic videos. To this end, it was necessary to develop and validate a new facial expression database which includes 20.000 stimuli of 55 expressions (study 1). Perceptual representations of the six basic emotional expressions were found previously to rely on evaluation of valence and arousal; study 2 showed that this evaluation generalises to many more expressions, particularly when displayed as videos. While it is widely accepted that knowledge influences perception, how these are linked is largely unknown; study 3 investigated this question by asking how knowledge about facial expressions, instantiated as conceptual representations, relates to perceptual representations of these expressions. A strong link was found which changed with the kind of expressions and the type of display. In probably the most extensive behavioural studies (with regards to the number of facial expressions used) to date, this thesis suggests that there are commonalities but also differences in processing of emotional and of other types of facial expressions. Thus, to understand facial expression processing, one needs to consider more than the 6 basic emotional expressions. These findings outline first steps towards a new domain in facial expression research, which has implications for a number of research and application fields where facial expressions play a role, ranging from social, developmental, and clinical psychology to computer vision and affective computing research.

Book Facial Expression Analysis with Graphical Models

Download or read book Facial Expression Analysis with Graphical Models written by Lifeng Shang and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Facial Expression Analysis With Graphical Models" by Lifeng, Shang, 尚利峰, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Facial expression recognition has become an active research topic in recent years due to its applications in human computer interfaces and data-driven animation. In this thesis, we focus on the problem of how to e?ectively use domain, temporal and categorical information of facial expressions to help computer understand human emotions. Over the past decades, many techniques (such as neural networks, Gaussian processes, support vector machines, etc.) have been applied to facial expression analysis. Recently graphical models have emerged as a general framework for applying probabilistic models. They provide a natural framework for describing the generative process of facial expressions. However, these models often su?er from too many latent variables or too complex model structures, which makes learning and inference dicult. In this thesis, we will try to analyze the deformation of facial expression by introducing some recently developed graphical models (e.g. latent topic model) or improving the recognition ability of some already widely used models (e.g. HMM). In this thesis, we develop three di?erent graphical models with di?erent representational assumptions: categories being represented by prototypes, sets of exemplars and topics in between. Our rst model incorporates exemplar-based representation into graphical models. To further improve computational e- ciency of the proposed model, we build it in a local linear subspace constructed by principal component analysis. The second model is an extension of the recently developed topic model by introducing temporal and categorical information into Latent Dirichlet Allocation model. In our discriminative temporal topic model (DTTM), temporal information is integrated by placing an asymmetric Dirichlet prior over document-topic distributions. The discriminative ability is improved by a supervised term weighting scheme. We describe the resulting DTTM in detail and show how it can be applied to facial expression recognition. Our third model is a nonparametric discriminative variation of HMM. HMM can be viewed as a prototype model, and transition parameters act as the prototype for one category. To increase the discrimination ability of HMM at both class level and state level, we introduce linear interpolation with maximum entropy (LIME) and member- ship coecients to HMM. Furthermore, we present a general formula for output probability estimation, which provides a way to develop new HMM. Experimental results show that the performance of some existing HMMs can be improved by integrating the proposed nonparametric kernel method and parameters adaption formula. In conclusion, this thesis develops three di?erent graphical models by (i) combining exemplar-based model with graphical models, (ii) introducing temporal and categorical information into Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model, and (iii) increasing the discrimination ability of HMM at both hidden state level and class level. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4784948 Subjects: Face perception - Data processing Image processing - Digital techniques Human-computer interaction

Book The Science of Facial Expression

Download or read book The Science of Facial Expression written by José-Miguel Fernández-Dols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of facial expressions has led to a steadily growing body of empirical findings and theoretical analyses. Every decade has seen work that extends or challenges previous thinking on facial expression. The Science of Facial Expression provides an updated review of the current psychology of facial expression . This book summarizes current conclusions and conceptual frameworks from leading figures who have shaped the field in their various subfields, and will therefore be of interest to practitioners, students, and researchers of emotion in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, biology, anthropology, linguistics, affective computing, and homeland security. Organized in eleven thematic sections, The Science of Facial Expression offers a broad perspective of the "geography" of the science of facial expression. It reviews the scientific history of emotion perception and the evolutionary origins and functions of facial expression. It includes an updated compilation on the great debate around Basic Emotion Theory versus Behavioral Ecology and Psychological constructionism. The developmental psychology and social psychology of facial expressions is explored in the role of facial expressions in child development, social interactions, and culture. The book also covers appraisal theory, concepts, neural and behavioral processes, and lesser-known facial behaviors such as yawing, vocal crying, and vomiting. In addition, the book reflects that research on the "expression of emotion" is moving towards a significance of context in the production and interpretation of facial expression The authors expose various fundamental questions and controversies yet to be resolved, but in doing so, open many sources of inspiration to pursue in the scientific study of facial expression.

Book The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression

Download or read book The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression written by Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, the great nineteenth-century French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne combined his intimate knowledge of facial anatomy with his skill in photography to produce a fascinating interpretation of the ways in which the human face portrays emotions. Here, Andrew Cuthbertson provides an English translation complete with a reproduction of the marvellous Album of photographs.