Emotional Expression System Based on Expression Intensity Recognition and Affective Model

Abstract:

Affective computing is an indispensable aspect in harmonious human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. Making computers have the ability of generating emotions is a challenging task of affective computing. Affective Computing and Artificial Psychology are new research fields that involve computer and emotions, they have the same key research aspect, affective modeling. The paper introduces the basic affective elements, and the representation of affections in a computer. And we will describe an emotion generation model for a multimodal virtual human. The relationship among the emotion, mood and personality are discussed, and the PAD emotion space is used to define the emotion and the mood. We obtain the strength information of each expression component through fuzzy recognition of facial expressions based on Ekman six expression classifications, and take this information as a signal motivating emotion under the intensity-based affective model. Finally, a 3D virtual Human head with facial expressions is designed to show the emotion generation outputs. Experimental results demonstrate that the emotion generation intensity-based model works effectively and meets the basic principle of human emotion generation.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 461)
• Pages: 618-622
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.461.618
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: Chuan Wan, Yan Tao Tian
• Keywords: Affective Modeling, Expression Intensity Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

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