Fine designed robotic faces could make realistic facial expressions. However, manually tuning of the facial motor configurations costs hours of work even for experts.
机器人可以学会吗do facial expression automatically by looking at himself?
In MPLab, researchers have developed computer vision based facial expressions recognition systems that enpower the robot to understand the definition of facial expressions. In particular, we use the definition of Action Units (AU) in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Then the ``Einstein'' is able to adjust his ``facial muscles'' to produce facial expressions by seeing his face in a mirror.
Manually Designed Expressions:
The faces of robots are increasingly realistic and the number of artificial muscles that controls them is rising. In light of this trend, UC San Diego researchers from the Machine Perception Laboratory are studying the face and head of their robotic Einstein in order to find ways to automate the process of teaching robots to make lifelike facial expressions.
This Einstein robot head has about 30 facial muscles, each moved by a tiny servo motor connected to the muscle by a string. Today, a highly trained person must manually set up these kinds of realistic robots so that the servos pull in the right combinations to make specific face expressions. In order to begin to automate this process, the UCSD researchers looked to both developmental psychology and machine learning.
Developmental psychologists speculate that infants learn to control their bodies through systematic exploratory movements, including babbling to learn to speak. Initially, these movements appear to be executed in a random manner as infants learn to control their bodies and reach for objects.