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

Abstract

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 I lough 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 conimunication 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 cotnmunication degradation is to regenerate facial itnagc by changing the tlirt'clion of the irises in the sarne original facial itnagc. The proposed methods and some experimental rcsults are presented to demonstrate the effectivity atlcl the coming inherent subjects. Future problems arc to ilnprovc the regeneratior1 method of irises, to introd~lcc thc real time processing method, to cope with the tnolion of the head and finally to propose a new cyc-calncltr system which coulcl reduce tllc constrait~ts cauerrl by the head ~iiouted goggle.