Ontology of Emotional Facial Expression Synthesis

This ontology provides an classification of MPEG-4 FAP animations inside expression profiles. The ontology allows storing, indexing and retrieving prerecorded synthetic facial animations that can express a given emotion. Also this ontology can be used as expertise knowledge base of the emotional facial animation creation. This ontology is made using Web Ontology Language using Protégé and the results are presented as answered queries.
The development if this ontology was made in joint collaboration of HUMAINE and AIM@SHAPE networks of excellence.

http://vrlab.epfl.ch/Publications/pdf/Garcia-Rojas_and_al_CAVWJ_06.pdf

A. Garcia-Rojas, F. Vexo, D. Thalmann, A. Raouzaiou, K.Karpouzis, S. Kollias, L. Moccozet and N. Magnenat-Thalmann. Emotional Face Expression Profiles Supported by Virtual Human Ontology, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Contact alejandra.garciarojas@epfl.ch