%0 Conference Paper %B IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, 2009. ICDL 2009 %D 2009 %T Learning to Make Facial Expressions %A Wu, T. %A Butko, N. %A Ruvulo, P. %A Bartlett, M. %A Movellan, J. %K Actuators %K Emotion recognition %K face detection %K face recognition %K facial motor parameters %K Feedback %K Humans %K learning (artificial intelligence) %K Machine Learning %K Magnetic heads %K Pediatrics %K real-time facial expression recognition %K Robot sensing systems %K robotic head %K Robots %K self-guided learning %K Servomechanisms %K Servomotors %X

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.

%B IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning, 2009. ICDL 2009 %I IEEE %C Shanghai %8 06/2009 %@ 978-1-4244-4117-4 %G eng %M 10801981