LAFTER
Lips and Face Real Time Tracking and Facial Expression Recognition
Nuria Oliver, and Alex Pentland
Vision and Modeling Group, MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, MA 02139-1130
Abstract
This paper describes a real-time system for finding and tracking a human
face and mouth, and recognizing mouth shapes that correlate with internal states
such as happiness or sadness. It has been tested on hundreds of users and
demonstrated extremely reliable and accurate performance.
Main Related Publication
LAFTER: A Real-time Face and Lips Tracker with
Facial Expression Recognition
Nuria Oliver, Francois Berard and Alex Pentland. Pattern Recognition
Journal, 33:1369-1382, 2000. Winner of the Special Mention Award from the
Pattern Recognition Society as an outstanding publication. Nov. 2000.
Last revised 27nov96
Nuria Oliver / MIT Media Lab