AI_FI

The main aim is to investigate whether and how human facial gestures (e.g., blink, smile, etc.) and gaze could be included into standard HCI systems as new modes of HCI and as providers of context-discriminative information for revealing how the user feels (e.g., pleased, tired, etc.). The intended approach is to design a novel facial-information analyser and to test its usefulness in different scenarios. The core technical aim is to develop this novel facial-information analyser which would process human-face image sequences to detect the user’s facial gestures, their temporal patterns and the user’s gaze direction, and then to fuse and interpret them in terms of command/affect/mood descriptive interpretation labels in a user-profiled and user-point-of-regard-sensitive manner.