Real-time parallel and cooperative recognition of facial images for an interactive visual human interface

This paper describes briefly an algorithm both for real-time facial image recognition in unconstrained indoor environments and a human like agent image synthesis which responds to the recognition results. Our simple but effective image recognition algorithm can recognize facial images from moving images, choose one primal face and track the primal face in real-time. Therefore, the agent can gaze/glance/etc., at the primal face (the interacting user) during the process. It means a "facial contact" or an "eye contact" can be achieved between the user and the synthesized moving agent, which is very important for friendly human interfaces.