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Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Conventional digital human systems struggle with complex emotions and real-time responsiveness.
  • Limitations include multi-emotion co-occurrence, dynamic expression, and semantic accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a digital human system framework integrating multimodal emotion recognition and compound facial expression generation.
  • To establish a real-time pipeline for compound emotional expression via "speech semantic parsing-multimodal emotion recognition-Action Unit (AU)-level 3D facial expression control."

Main Methods:

  • Utilized ResNet18 for emotion classification on the AffectNet dataset.
  • Developed an Action Unit (AU) motion curve driving module on Unreal Engine with a state-machine for dynamic emotion synthesis.
  • Employed Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) for semantic analysis and generating language-driven facial responses.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated significant improvements in facial animation quality.
  • Increased naturalness from 3.54 to 3.94 and semantic congruence from 3.44 to 3.80.
  • Validated the system's capability for realistic and emotionally coherent real-time expression generation.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed system offers a complete technical framework for high-fidelity digital humans with affective interaction.
  • Provides a practical foundation for advanced digital human development.
  • Successfully addresses limitations in current digital human facial expression systems.