Research on Recognition of Facial Expressions and Micro-Expressions for Robot Design
摘要
It is said that humans make their first impressions of a person 7% by verbal communication and 93% by visual and auditory communication. When robots intervene in human society and need to communicate with humans, the face is considered to be the most important interface. However, it is unclear whether differences can be recognized in the subtle facial expressions that appear in daily life. Therefore, in this study, we investigate the synchronization of emotions for knowing whether we can recognize such micro expressions. Emotional synchronization means that the feelings of a person A and a person B are communicated and emotionally coupled. For example, when the person A likes the person B, the person B feels the same emotion toward the person A at the same time, they are emotionally synchronized. We believe that the study of emotional synchronization will be useful for designing more friendly robots.