TY - GEN
T1 - Development of facial expressions generator for emotion expressive humanoid robot
AU - Trovato, Gabriele
AU - Kishi, Tatsuhiro
AU - Endo, Nobutsuna
AU - Hashimoto, Kenji
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - Human-robot communication is a very important aspect in the field of Humanoid Robotics. Non-verbal communication is one of the components that make interaction natural. However, despite the most recent efforts, robots still can show only limited expression capabilities. The purpose of this work is to create a facial expression generator that can be applied to the new 24 DoF head of the humanoid robot KOBIAN-R. In this paper, we present a system based on relevant studies of human communication and facial anatomy, adapted to the specific robotic face. It makes use of polynomial classifiers and is able to produce over 600 thousands of facial cues combinations, together with appropriate neck movement. Results showed that the recognition rate of expressions produced by this system is comparable to the rate of recognition of the most common facial expressions. We conclude that our system can successfully improve the communication capabilities of the robot KOBIAN-R, and that there is potential for using it to implement more complex interaction.
AB - Human-robot communication is a very important aspect in the field of Humanoid Robotics. Non-verbal communication is one of the components that make interaction natural. However, despite the most recent efforts, robots still can show only limited expression capabilities. The purpose of this work is to create a facial expression generator that can be applied to the new 24 DoF head of the humanoid robot KOBIAN-R. In this paper, we present a system based on relevant studies of human communication and facial anatomy, adapted to the specific robotic face. It makes use of polynomial classifiers and is able to produce over 600 thousands of facial cues combinations, together with appropriate neck movement. Results showed that the recognition rate of expressions produced by this system is comparable to the rate of recognition of the most common facial expressions. We conclude that our system can successfully improve the communication capabilities of the robot KOBIAN-R, and that there is potential for using it to implement more complex interaction.
KW - Emotion Recognition
KW - Facial Expressions
KW - Human-Robot Interaction
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U2 - 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2012.6651536
DO - 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2012.6651536
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880684965
SN - 9781467313698
T3 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
SP - 303
EP - 308
BT - 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2012
T2 - 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2012
Y2 - 29 November 2012 through 1 December 2012
ER -