APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING FACIAL EXPRESSION OF VIRTUAL HUMAN USING HETEROGENEOUS DATA AND METHOD THEREOF
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1. An apparatus for controlling facial expression of a virtual human using heterogeneous information, comprising:
- an extraction module extracting feature data from input image data and sentence or voice data;
a DB construction module classifying the extracted feature data into a set of emotional expressions and a emotional expression category by using a set of pre-constructed index data on heterogeneous data;
a recognition module transferring the classified emotional expression category; and
a viewing module viewing the images and the sentence or voice of the virtual human according to the emotional expression category.
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Abstract
Disclosed are an apparatus for controlling facial expression of a virtual human using heterogeneous information and a method using the same. The apparatus for controlling expression of a virtual human using heterogeneous information includes: an extraction module extracting feature data from input image data and sentence or voice data; a DB construction module classifying the extracted feature data into a set of emotional expressions and a emotional expression category by using a set of pre-constructed index data on heterogeneous data; a recognition module transferring the classified emotional expression category; and a viewing module viewing the images and the sentence or voice of the virtual human according to the emotional expression category. By this configuration, the exemplary embodiment of the present invention can delicately express emotion of a virtual human and increase recognition for emotional classification accordingly.
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1. An apparatus for controlling facial expression of a virtual human using heterogeneous information, comprising:
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an extraction module extracting feature data from input image data and sentence or voice data; a DB construction module classifying the extracted feature data into a set of emotional expressions and a emotional expression category by using a set of pre-constructed index data on heterogeneous data; a recognition module transferring the classified emotional expression category; and a viewing module viewing the images and the sentence or voice of the virtual human according to the emotional expression category. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for controlling facial expression of a virtual human using heterogeneous information, comprising:
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(a) extracting feature data from input image data and sentence or voice data; (b) classifying the extracted feature data into a set of emotional expressions and a emotional expression category by using a set of pre-constructed index data on heterogeneous data; and (c) viewing images and sentence or voice of the virtual human according to the classified emotional expression category. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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