Abstract
Recently, the remote communication through the Internet has been performed actively. And the remote communication system using avatars are very popular especially in Japan. However, the avatars using in communication are not reflecting the users in many cases, because they are made by themselves using the application soft which is prepared in remote communication support system. As a result, the remote friends can't recall the users from their avatars so much. In this research, we have proposed an avatar generating method. In this proposed method, the avatar is made by composition of the portraits which are made by user's friends. We have developed the prototype sytems for making portraits and for making the avatar by composing some portraits. In this paper, we describe these methods and systems to make the portrait and to make the avatar. And also we performed the experiments to confirm the usability of the proposed system and the quality of avatars which are made by using the proposed system. As a result of experiment, it is revealed that the avatar, which is made by the proposed system, tends to be loved by the user and their friends.
