Diminishing head-mounted display for shared mixed reality

We propose a new scheme to recover the eye-contact between multiple users in a shared mixed-reality space. The eye-contact in a shared mixed-reality space is lost as the side effect of wearing head-mounted displays. We synthesize facial images in real-time with arbitrary poses and eye expressions by using several photographs of the user. The face images are overlaid in order to diminish the HMD in his partner´s view for the recovery of eye-contact. The basic idea, facial image synthesis, and an experimental system to diminish HMD are presented in this paper.