Abstract
TheKansei robot “Ifbot”communicates with people by considering its own emotions. Ifbot has many facial expressions to communicate enjoyment. In our research, to develop a system of agent-mediated facial communication, we apply Ifbot as the agent. If the facial expression mechanism of a robot similar to human mechanism, facial parameter extracted from human can be used as the facial expression control parameter of the robot. However, because Ifbot has a cartooned face structure to entertain people, and it differs from human face structure, this technique cannot be used. In this paper, we propose a method for mapping human face to the face of Ifbot using a neural network. We report on results of Ifbot's facial expression obtained with our method.
