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Transparent Gaze Communications for Multiparty Videoconference System

Thitiporn LERTRUSDACHAKUL, Akinori TAGUCHI, Terumasa AOKI, Hiroshi YASUDA

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This paper addresses issues regarding to the development of teleconferencing support collaboration focusing on the realistic sensation domain. It argues that the gaze communications are the important mechanisms to enable visual channel and social presence in human-human communications. We propose a new aspect to establish multiple eye contacts and community awareness in multiparty videoconference (VC). The participants can aware of being recognized from any remote sites while they are talking with each other. Community awareness means the ability to aware of group communication in the videoconference. The participant can recognize of who is talking with whom and any communicative groups in a conference. An intelligent image arrangement through a unique position of camera is built and simulated. The systematic placement of images serves the gaze communications by utilizing the characteristic of gaze direction and image's position. The experimental results show that the proposed approach has the significant improvement in the interpersonal communication compared with the conventional VC system.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E87-D No.6 pp.1328-1337
Publication Date
2004/06/01
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Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Human Communication I)
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