Title
Digital Full-Face Mask Display with Expression Recognition using Embedded Photo Reflective Sensor Arrays
Abstract
This paper presents a thin digital full-face mask display that can reflect an entire facial expression of a user onto an avatar to support augmented face-to-face communication in real environments. Although camera-based facial expression recognition technology has enabled people to augment their faces with avatars, application was limited to face-to-face communication in virtual environments. To enable digital facial augmentation with an avatar in a real space, we propose a digital face mask display system that integrates a lightweight flexible display with a thin facial expression recognition system. The thin wearable facial expression recognition system was implemented with photo reflective sensor arrays which can measure facial expressions at 40 feature points distributed across an entire face. We investigated a ten-class facial expression identification model based on an SVM training algorithm. The trained model achieved an average accuracy of 79% when identifying the facial expressions of multiple users. User experiments indicated that the proposed thin digital full-face mask display allows the wearer to control the facial expression of the avatar with a fast response rate and create a positive sense of self-agency and self-ownership toward the augmented avatar face.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ISMAR50242.2020.00030
2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Human-centered computing,Visualization,Visualization techniques,Treemaps,Human-centered computing,Visualization,Visualization design and evaluation methods
Conference
1554-7868
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-8509-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
15
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yoshinari Takegawa18617.01
Yutaka Tokuda200.34
Akino Umezawa300.34
Katsuhiro Suzuki4145.03
Katsutoshi Masai59015.01
Yuta Sugiura635746.94
Maki Sugimoto742666.80
Diego Martinez Plasencia811711.36
Sriram Subramanian91782119.93
Keiji Hirata1017842.91