Interactive Facial Expression Reader and Extension to First Impression Improver

Facial expression plays an important role as non-verbal information in dialogue communication. People complement verbal information with non-verbal information to hold a smooth conversation. To date, collaboration between information engineering and psychology has enabled development of human facial expression recognition technology. Most of the related studies, however, have ended up with a laboratory-based demonstration. In this paper, focusing on the facial expression database, we overview the facial expression recognition technology. Then we present a simple application using the current status of the facial expression recognition technology. Finally we show prospect of the technology with a more realistic application.

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