The Walt Disney Company
Automated determination of expressions for an interactive social agent

Abstract:

A system providing an interactive social agent can include a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a training content standardization software code configured to receive content depicting human expressions and including annotation data describing the human expressions from multiple content annotation sources, generate a corresponding content descriptor for each content annotation source to translate the annotation data into a standardized data format, and transform the annotation data into the standardized data format using the corresponding content descriptor. The content and the annotation data in the to standardized format are stored as training data for use in training expressions for the interactive social agent. The memory may also store a character remapping software code configured to receive data identifying an expression for the interactive social agent, identify a character persona of the interactive social agent, and determine a modified expression based on expressive idiosyncrasies of the character persona.