An Interactive System with Facial Expression Recognition

To make communication between users and machines more comfortable, we focus on facial expressions and automatically classify them into 4 expression candidates: “joy,” “anger, ” “sadness,” and “surprise.” The classification uses features that correspond to expression-motion patterns, and then voice data is output based on classification results. When we output voice data, insufficiency in classification is taken into account. We choose the first and second expression candidates from classification results. To realize interactive communication between users and machines, information on these candidates is used when we access a voice database. The voice database contains voice data corresponding to emotions.