“mimicat: face input interface supporting animatronics costume performer’s facial expression” by Shoji, Yoshiike, Kikukawa, Nishikawa, Saori, et al. …
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- mimicat: face input interface supporting animatronics costume performer's facial expression
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Today a character costume can be seen in many places, such as amusement facilities, sport stadium and so on. They perform comical and funny body action for us. In general, the performers can’t control their costume’s facial expression. We developed “mimicat” that can synchronizing performer’s facial action and costume’s one. A character costume performer can do more comical action by using mimicat. At first our motivation is combining animatronics and face and expression recognition.
References:
1. Paul Ekman, E. L 1987. What Face Reveaks: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), pp. 413–425
2. J. Saragin, S. Lucey and J. Cohn, “Deformable Model Fitting by Regularized Landmark Mean-Shifts”, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2010
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![©Rika Shoji, Toshiki Yoshiike, Yuya Kikukawa, Tadahiro Nishikawa, Taigetsu Saori, Suketomo Ayaka, Tetsuaki Baba, and Kumiko Kushiyama](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2012-Posters-Shoji_mimicat-Face-input-interface-supporting-animatronics-costume-performers-facial-expression-04.png)
![©Rika Shoji, Toshiki Yoshiike, Yuya Kikukawa, Tadahiro Nishikawa, Taigetsu Saori, Suketomo Ayaka, Tetsuaki Baba, and Kumiko Kushiyama](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2012-Posters-Shoji_mimicat-Face-input-interface-supporting-animatronics-costume-performers-facial-expression-03.png)
![©Rika Shoji, Toshiki Yoshiike, Yuya Kikukawa, Tadahiro Nishikawa, Taigetsu Saori, Suketomo Ayaka, Tetsuaki Baba, and Kumiko Kushiyama](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2012-Posters-Shoji_mimicat-Face-input-interface-supporting-animatronics-costume-performers-facial-expression-02.png)
![©Rika Shoji, Toshiki Yoshiike, Yuya Kikukawa, Tadahiro Nishikawa, Taigetsu Saori, Suketomo Ayaka, Tetsuaki Baba, and Kumiko Kushiyama](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2012-Posters-Shoji_mimicat-Face-input-interface-supporting-animatronics-costume-performers-facial-expression-01.png)