Virtual gaze redirection in face images

Author

Weiner, Dorian ; Kiryati, Nahum

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Tel Aviv Univ., Israel

fYear

2003

fDate

17-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

81

Abstract

In video-conferencing, the participant watches the screen rather than the camera. This turns the gaze direction away from the other party and makes eye contact impossible. Artificial gaze redirection by iris repositioning has been proposed, but the feasibility of crucial algorithmic components, especially the challenging computer vision parts, was not demonstrated. This paper demonstrates a system for gaze redirection in color face images via eye synthesis and replacement. The proposed method can serve as an image editing tool for entertainment and commercial use, and is an important step towards gaze-redirection in video-conferencing.

Keywords

computer graphics; computer vision; image colour analysis; image reconstruction; image segmentation; object detection; teleconferencing; color face images; computer vision; eye contact; eye detection; eye image replacement; eye segmentation; eye synthesis; graphics tasks; image editing tool; iris repositioning; video-conferencing; virtual gaze redirection; Cameras; Computer graphics; Computer vision; Displays; Eyes; Face detection; Head; Iris; Mice; Watches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Analysis and Processing, 2003.Proceedings. 12th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1948-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIAP.2003.1234028

Filename

1234028