Demo Abstract: Wireless Glasses for Non-contact Facial Expression Monitoring

Yigong Hu, Jingping Nie, Yuanyuting Wang, Stephen Xia, Xiaofan Jiang

Abstract: Facial expression monitoring is crucial in fields including mental health care, driver assistant systems, and advertising. However, existing systems typically rely on cameras that capture entire faces, or contact-based bio-signal sensors, which are neither comfortable nor portable. In this demonstration, we present a wireless glasses system for non-contact facial expression monitoring. The system is composed of an IR camera and an embedded processing unit mounted on a 3D-printed glasses frame, and a novel data processing pipeline running across the glasses platform and a computer. Our system performs high-accuracy and real-time facial expression detection with a running time of up to 9 hours. We will show the fully-functioning wearable system in this demonstration.