TY - CONF T1 - Learning to Make Facial Expressions T2 - IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, 2009. ICDL 2009 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Wu, T. A1 - Butko, N. A1 - Ruvulo, P. A1 - Bartlett, M. A1 - Movellan, J. KW - Actuators KW - Emotion recognition KW - face detection KW - face recognition KW - facial motor parameters KW - Feedback KW - Humans KW - learning (artificial intelligence) KW - Machine Learning KW - Magnetic heads KW - Pediatrics KW - real-time facial expression recognition KW - Robot sensing systems KW - robotic head KW - Robots KW - self-guided learning KW - Servomechanisms KW - Servomotors AB -

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.

JF - IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, 2009. ICDL 2009 PB - IEEE CY - Shanghai SN - 978-1-4244-4117-4 ER -