Development of caricaturing robot and its prospect through the prototype robot exhibition in EXPO 2005

Takayuki Fujiwara; Takashi Watanabe; Takuma Funahashi; Hiroyasu Koshimizu; Katsuya Suzuki

doi:10.1117/12.648093

6 December 2005 Development of caricaturing robot and its prospect through the Prototype Robot Exhibition in EXPO 2005

Takayuki Fujiwara, Takashi Watanabe, Takuma Funahashi, Hiroyasu Koshimizu, Katsuya Suzuki

Proceedings Volume 6051, Optomechatronic Machine Vision; 605111 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.648093
Event: Optomechatronic Technologies 2005, 2005, Sapporo, Japan

Abstract

We developed the facial caricaturing robot "COOPER", that was exhibited at the Prototype Robot Exhibition of EXPO 2005, Aichi Japan during 11 days from Jun.9 to Jun.19. COOPER watches the face of a person seated at the chair, obtains facial images, and analyzes the images to extract 251 feature points to generate his facial line drawings with deformation. It is noted that the caricature was drawn on the specialized "Shrimp rice cracker" in 4 minutes. To do this we customized the original system PICASSO by coping with the illumination circumstances in EXPO pavilion. This paper illustrates the outline of the COOPER and the details of the image processing in it. And we discusses on the prospects of the future subjects based on more than 395 facial caricatures obtained at EXPO2005.

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Takayuki Fujiwara, Takashi Watanabe, Takuma Funahashi, Hiroyasu Koshimizu, and Katsuya Suzuki "Development of caricaturing robot and its prospect through the Prototype Robot Exhibition in EXPO 2005", Proc. SPIE 6051, Optomechatronic Machine Vision, 605111 (6 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.648093

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