ESCA Workshop on Audio-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP'97) September 26-27, 1997 Rhodes, Greece

Context Sensitive Faces

Isabella Poggi (1), Catherine Pelachaud (2)

(1) Dipartimento di Linguistica, Universita di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
(2) Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy

The aim of this work is to simulate the facial behaviors of a Speaker while communicating to different Listeners in various situations. Our system takes as input the Speaker's goal of performing a Communicative Act, that is of communicating something to a Hearer, and outputs the appropriate performative of the communicative act and corresponding facial expressions.

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Bibliographic reference.  Poggi, Isabella / Pelachaud, Catherine (1997): "Context sensitive faces", In AVSP-1997, 17-20.