Face player: A qualitative sonification for the visually impaired

Oisín Curran; Séamus Torpey; Michael Schukat; Andy Shearer

doi:10.1117/12.587142

Face player: A qualitative sonification for the visually impaired

Oisín Curran
, Séamus Torpey
, Michael Schukat
, Andy Shearer

University of Galway

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Abstract

This paper describes the development of a system for mapping the features of the human face to sound. In order to determine how best to express these qualities, magnitude estimation experiments are performed with young visually impaired students. The data dimensions used are overall head ratio (as a size measure) and distance between key facial features. The display dimensions are frequency and tempo.

Original language	English
Article number	40
Pages (from-to)	404-411
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5674
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.587142
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Computational Imaging III - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: 17 Jan 2005 → 18 Jan 2005

Keywords

Feature extraction
Magnitude estimation
Psychophysics
Skin detection
Sonification

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