Image Transformation of Eye Areas for Synthesizing Eye-contacts in Video Conferencing

Takuya Inoue, Tomokazu Takahashi, Takatsugu Hirayama, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Daisuke Deguchi, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase, Takayuki Kurozumi, Kunio Kashino

2016

Abstract

Recently, the spread of Web cameras has facilitated video-conferencing. Since a Web camera is usually located outside the display while the user looks at his/her partner in the display, there is a problem that they cannot establish eye contact with each other. Various methods have been proposed to solve this problem, but most of them required specific sensors. In this paper, we propose a method that transforms the eye areas to synthesize eye contact using a single camera that is commonly implemented in laptop computers and mobile phones. Concretely, we implemented a system which transforms the user’s eye areas in an image to his/her eye image with a straight gaze to the camera only when the user’s gaze falls in a range that the partner would perceive eye contact.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Inoue T., Takahashi T., Hirayama T., Kawanishi Y., Deguchi D., Ide I., Murase H., Kurozumi T. and Kashino K. (2016). Image Transformation of Eye Areas for Synthesizing Eye-contacts in Video Conferencing . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 273-279. DOI: 10.5220/0005668702730279

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp16,
author={Takuya Inoue and Tomokazu Takahashi and Takatsugu Hirayama and Yasutomo Kawanishi and Daisuke Deguchi and Ichiro Ide and Hiroshi Murase and Takayuki Kurozumi and Kunio Kashino},
title={Image Transformation of Eye Areas for Synthesizing Eye-contacts in Video Conferencing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={273-279},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005668702730279},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - Image Transformation of Eye Areas for Synthesizing Eye-contacts in Video Conferencing
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Inoue T.
AU - Takahashi T.
AU - Hirayama T.
AU - Kawanishi Y.
AU - Deguchi D.
AU - Ide I.
AU - Murase H.
AU - Kurozumi T.
AU - Kashino K.
PY - 2016
SP - 273
EP - 279
DO - 10.5220/0005668702730279