A novel face-tracking mouth controller and its application to interacting with bioacoustic models

  • Authors:
  • Gamhewage C. de Silva;Tamara Smyth;Michael J. Lyons

  • Affiliations:
  • ATR MIS Labs, Keihanna, Science City, Kyoto, Japan;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;ATR IRC and MIS Labs, Keihanna, Science City, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • NIME '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We describe a simple, computationally light, real-time system for tracking the lower face and extracting information about the shape of the open mouth from a video sequence. The system allows unencumbered control of audio synthesis modules by action of the mouth. We report work in progress to use the mouth controller to interact with a physical model of sound production by the avian syrinx.