EMOTION ENHANCED FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS USING THE CONCEPT OF VIRTUAL SPACE TELECONFERENCING

Here we investigate the unique advantages of our proposed Virtual Spac e Teleconferencing System (VST) in the area of multimedia teleconferen cing, with emphasis to facial emotion transmission and recognition. Sp ecially, we show that this concept can be used in a unique way of comm unication in which the emotions of the local participant are transmitt ed to the remote party with higher recognition rate by enhancing the e motions using some intelligence processing in between the local and th e remote participants. In other words, we can show that this kind of e motion enhanced teleconferencing systems can supersede face to face me etings, by effectively alleviating the barriers in recognizing emotion s between different nations. Also in this paper we show that it is a b etter alternative to the blurred or mosaiced facial images that one ca n find in some television interviews with people who are not willing t o be exposed in public.