The evaluation of stylized facial expressions

  • Authors:
  • Christian Wallraven;Jan Fischer;Douglas W. Cunningham;Dirk Bartz;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Affiliations:
  • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany;University of Tübingen, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany and University of Tübingen, Germany;University of Tübingen, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • APGV '06 Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Stylized rendering aims to abstract information in an image making it useful not only for artistic but also for visualization purposes. Recent advances in computer graphics techniques have made it possible to render many varieties of stylized imagery efficiently. So far, however, few attempts have been made to characterize the perceptual impact and effectiveness of stylization. In this paper, we report several experiments that evaluate three different stylization techniques in the context of dynamic facial expressions. Going beyond the usual questionnaire approach, the experiments compare the techniques according to several criteria ranging from introspective measures (subjective preference) to task-dependent measures (recognizability, intensity). Our results shed light on how stylization of image contents affects the perception and subjective evaluation of facial expressions.