Pogany: Tangible Interface for Expressive Facial Animation

A head-shaped input device is used to produce expressive facial animations. The physical interface is divided into zones, and each zone controls an expression on a smiley or on a virtual 3D face. Through
contacts with the interface users can generate basic or blended expressions.
To evaluate the interface and to analyze the behavior of the users,
we performed a study made of three experiments in which subjects were
asked to reproduce simple or more subtle expressions. The results show
that the subjects easily accept the interface and get engaged in a pleasant
affective relationship that make them feel as sculpting the virtual face. This work shows that anthropomorphic interfaces can be used successfully for intuitive affective expression.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• tangible
• interface
• facial
• animation
• anthropomorphic
• avatar
• affective
• computing
• Christian
• Jacquemin
• LIMSI
• CNRS

[pixelmasque]

interesting, certainly a variation on digital mouse click morphing/blending of parts. can you make it larger and control the rate of movement where parts come together, like top lip to side of cheek etc.

[ChristianJacquemin]

The version presented here does not rely on gesture analysis, but only on hand positions. A further work made by Fivos Maniatakos explores gesture-based interaction and application to sound synthesis. You are right to mention that gesture analysis requires more or less sensitivity depending on the part of the face where the interaction takes place.

[ChristianJacquemin]

This video is inspired by the eponym sculpture of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi who spent the last 30 years of his life in Paris. It is in Paris that Brancusi met Margit Pogany (1879/80-1964), a Hungarian art student who first visited his studio in 1910, and later posed for him in December 1910 and January 1911.

[jason420jason]

What does the pogany have to do with it. Is that the product name or your name? Pogany is Hungarian. Let me know please.