Eyes alive

For an animated human face model to appear natural it should produce eye movements consistent with human ocular behavior. During face-to-face conversational interactions, eyes exhibit conversational turn-taking and agent thought processes through gaze direction, saccades, and scan patterns. We have implemented an eye movement model based on empirical models of saccades and statistical models of eye-tracking data. Face animations using stationary eyes, eyes with random saccades only, and eyes with statistically derived saccades are compared, to evaluate whether they appear natural and effective while communicating.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: TOG
• Authors: Sooha Park Lee, Jeremy B. Badler, Norman I. Badler
• Keywords: Eye Movement, Face-to-face Conversational Interactions, Human Ocular Behavior, TOG 2002