Enhanced video communication using gaze correction with simplified 3D warping and single camera

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Abstract

Under a video communication environment with single camera, the key problem to interfere user's natural feeling of conversation is its physical limitation to establish proper eye contact. This problem is caused by difficulty in aligning viewing directions of camera and user. We present a new approach to solve this problem using image-based warping technique. The main idea for our gaze correction is to generate an image captured by a virtual camera placed on the point which the user stares at. Our proposed method has two key components. The first one is to estimate the correction angle from the input images without supervision. The second one is the warping process to gaze-correct the input image. We show experimental results of gaze correction for situations which can occur in typical real communication environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultimedia Databases and Image Communication - Second International Workshop, MDIC 2001, Proceedings
EditorsMaurizio Tucci
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages213-224
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)354042587X, 9783540425878
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
Event2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Image Communication, MDIC 2001 - Amalfi, Italy
Duration: 17 Sep 200118 Sep 2001

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2184 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Image Communication, MDIC 2001
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityAmalfi
Period17/09/0118/09/01

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