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Sonification of Facial Actions for Musical Expression (2010.03223v1)
Published 7 Oct 2020 in cs.HC, cs.CV, cs.SD, and eess.AS
Abstract: The central role of the face in social interaction and non-verbal communication suggests we explore facial action as a means of musical expression. This paper presents the design, implementation, and preliminary studies of a novel system utilizing face detection and optic flow algorithms to associate facial movements with sound synthesis in a topographically specific fashion. We report on our experience with various gesture-to-sound mappings and applications, and describe our preliminary experiments at musical performance using the system.