A Cartoon-Character Costume with Facial Expression

彬彬

1 Introduction

At a theme park or entertainment show, an actor wearing a

cartoon-character costume entertains guests. Unfortunately, existing

cartoon-character costumes have a fixed facial expression. The

actor must convey an emotional expression by body actions, which

usually forces the actor to have special skill and a great deal of

training.

We propose a cartoon-character costume of which face can vary

according to the emotion.

2 Building a head of costume

To represent varying facial expression, we build a head of the

cartoon-character costume. The actor wears this head. The head

is made of a big plastic box whose front panel is attached with 15.6

inch LED display to represent a cartoon face image. A web camera

is equipped inside the box to capture a facial image of the actor. The

internal camera and the LED display are connected with computer

through USB cables. The computer system (Intel core i7 870, RAM

4GB, Microsoft OS XP) calculates facial expression from the facial

image based on a face recognition method, and represents the corresponding

cartoon face image to the facial expression. The costume

head equips additional set of external web camera and 5 inch small

LED display. The actor can see the environment through the small

internal display. The costume head has 4 kg weight. The actor has

a carrier for climbing mountain on his back. The carrier partially

supports and balances the head of the costume.

彬彬

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