Learning to Make Facial Expressions
Title | Learning to Make Facial Expressions |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Wu, T, Butko, N, Ruvulo, P, Bartlett, M, Movellan, J |
Conference Name | IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, 2009. ICDL 2009 |
Date Published | 06/2009 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Conference Location | Shanghai |
ISBN Number | 978-1-4244-4117-4 |
Accession Number | 10801981 |
Keywords | Actuators, Emotion recognition, face detection, face recognition, facial motor parameters, Feedback, Humans, learning (artificial intelligence), Machine Learning, Magnetic heads, Pediatrics, real-time facial expression recognition, Robot sensing systems, robotic head, Robots, self-guided learning, Servomechanisms, Servomotors |
Abstract | This paper explores the process of self-guided learning of realistic facial expression production by a robotic head with 31 degrees of freedom. Facial motor parameters were learned using feedback from real-time facial expression recognition from video. The experiments show that the mapping of servos to expressions was learned in under one-hour of training time. We discuss how our work may help illuminate the computational study of how infants learn to make facial expressions. |