In the field of image processing it is very interesting to recognize the human gesture for general life applications. For example, observing the gesture of a driver when person is driving and alerting the person when in sleepy mood will be quite useful. Human gestures can be identified by observing the different movements of eyes, mouth, nose and hands. In this proposed system it is focusing on...

The capacity to imitate facial gestures is highly variable in rhesus macaques and this variability may be related to differences in specific neurobehavioral patterns of development. This study evaluated the differential neonatal imitative response of 41 macaques in relation to the development of sensory, motor, and cognitive skills throughout the 1st month of life. The results show that infants...

Speech prosody has traditionally been analyzed in terms of acoustic features. Even though visual features and gestures have been shown to help and enhance linguistic processing, the conventional view is that facial and body gesture information in oral (non-sign) languages tends to be redundant and has the role of helping the hearer recover the meaning of an utterance. We conducted two perceptio...

Avatars are increasingly used to express our emotions in our online communications. Such avatars are used based on the assumption that avatar expressions are interpreted universally among any cultures. However, our former study showed there are cultural differences in interpreting avatar facial expressions. This paper summarizes the results of cross cultural evaluations of avatar expressions am...

Recently the facial expression recognition has gained broad concentration and fast progress. In this paper, we give a review for the latest advancement of the domestic and international facial gesture recognition technology. Facial Expression Recognition system includes three steps: face detection, expressional feature extraction and expression classification. We concentrate on the method featu...

Avatars are increasingly used to express our emotions in our online communications. Such avatars are used based on the assumption that avatar expressions are interpreted universally among any cultures. However, our former studies showed there are cultural differences in interpreting avatar facial expressions. This paper summarizes the results of the former studies of cross cultural evaluations ...

Some non-verbal cues, such as voice pitch and gestures, can influence the individual's emotional response to different messages. For this reason, communication be understood language of emotion, while content is ideas. But research question here what hand gesture strategies are more effective, attractive, elicit a stronger response. To answer question, study analyzes some in public discourses. ...

In this paper, we present a framework for an expressive virtual storyteller for children. Our virtual storyteller displays facial expressions of appraisals related to story events. The facial expressions are animated jointly with deictic gestures towards graphical elements representing story events. We describe a preliminary study that we conducted with 23 children. We discuss the impact of fac...

In this chapter, we investigate the effects of facial prominence cues, in terms of gestures, when synthesized on animated talking heads. In the first study a speech intelligibility experiment is conducted, where speech quality is acoustically degraded, then the speech is presented to 12 subjects through a lip synchronized talking head carrying head-nods and eyebrow raising gestures. The experim...

This paper investigates the use of facial gestures for identity recognition. This is the first time that such a quantitative evaluation is conducted, comparing the analyses of 2D versus 3D dynamic data of verbal and nonverbal facial actions. Suitable data processing and feature extraction methods are examined, then a number of pattern matching techniques including the Fréchet distance, Correlat...