Generating Facial Images Eye-Contacting with Partner on the TV Conference Environment

摘要

We have been developing the method for facial part recognition such as eyes, nose, mouth, etc. This paper pays attention especially to eye (iris) recognition by Hough transform. Basing on this iris recognition, this paper proposes a basic idea and its method for re-generation of facial image which is eye-contacting with partner on the TV conference environment. Through this we propose a new methodology to realize a natural human interface of the face- to- face communication on the TV conference environment. Since human is likely to look at the face of his partner on TV monitor not at TV camera, he will usually fail to send his own eye-contacted facial images to him. The basic idea of this paper to improve this fatal communication degradation is to regenerate facial image by changing the direction of the irises in the same original facial image. The proposed methods and some experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectivity and the coming inherent subjects. Future problems are to improve the regeneration method of irises, to introduce the real time processing method, to cope with the motion of the head and finally to propose a new eye-camera system which could reduce the constraints caused by the head mouted goggle.