Facial expression recognition for a sociable robot

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Tang, Wing Hei Iris
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Rodney Brooks.
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Abstract
In order to develop a sociable robot that can operate in the social environment of humans, we need to develop a robot system that can recognize the emotions of the people it interacts with and can respond to them accordingly. In this thesis, I present a facial expression system that recognizes the facial features of human subjects in an unsupervised manner and interprets the facial expressions of the individuals. The facial expression system is integrated with an existing emotional model for the expressive humanoid robot, Mertz.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-54).
 
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2007
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46467
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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