Capturing facial expressions and using them to drive the expression of a virtual character is more difficult than motion capture, because the movements involved are much smaller and more subtle.
A robot has taught itself to smile, frown, and make other human facial expressions using machine learning.
The walls were painted beige, to better frame telltale facial expressions and physical gestures on videotape.
'If we could use facial expressions to detect dementia that would be something great,' he added.
Yes, act - show that you are interested with affirmative facial expressions and engaged body language.
These are the Big Six, quite literally, the in-your-face emotions - the ones that everyone the world over exhibits with the same dramatic and characteristic facial expressions.
Other experts on facial expressions applaud Dr. Niedenthal's new model, but a number of them also think that parts of it require fine-tuning.