
Cómo aumentar la calidad de la expresión posada: Expresión planteada caos sistemas de imagen son cada vez más populares. Aunque existen desde hace tiempo en el sector del arte y el espectáculo, en los últimos años también han ganado terreno en la industria tecnológica. Independientemente del sector, la adquisición de las poses deseadas plantea retos universales. Para ayudar a conseguir datos de mayor calidad para el aprendizaje automático en tecnología y promover poses de referencia más precisas en arte/entretenimiento, a continuación se ofrece una guía con los errores comunes que se deben evitar para sacar el máximo partido de su participante, actor o modelo de datos.
NOTA: Hay mucho que tratar sobre este tema. Esta es una versión truncada con sólo las expresiones de la cara superior. Estoy disponible para consultas (facetheFACS@melindaozel.com) si desea la misma información para la parte inferior de la cara y/o las expresiones combinadas.
Mejores prácticas para capturar expresiones posadas en Tecnología
Errores a evitar en la contratación y la planificación
CONTRATACIÓN
La elección de su equipo de recogida influirá enormemente en la calidad de su proyecto. En el sector tecnológico, entre los errores más comunes que se cometen al contratar a especialistas en adquisición de datos se encuentran los siguientes:
NO contrate a personas sobrecualificadas para recopilar sus datos
- La captura de datos puede ser tediosa y repetitiva. Aunque la experiencia es importante en la fase de estrategia de datos, no es necesaria en la fase de adquisición de datos. Contratar a personas sobrecualificadas para recopilar datos aumentará la probabilidad de que sus empleados se cansen de tareas poco estimulantes y se estanquen en su carrera. El aburrimiento y el estancamiento reducirán los incentivos para que las personas permanezcan en su equipo, a menos que tenga una vía clara de promoción. Contratar a personas con menos experiencia aumentará las posibilidades de retener a miembros de su equipo. También proporcionará oportunidades de crecimiento profesional a los empleados sin experiencia, en lugar de perpetuar las asfixiantes estructuras basadas en contratistas.
- Una de las peores cosas que puede haber en un proyecto de captura de datos es una alta tasa de rotación. Usted quiere que su equipo conozca los entresijos de su proceso de recogida de datos. Un equipo bien informado que entienda las dificultades y los trucos del sistema proporcionará datos más precisos y reducirá el tiempo dedicado a la resolución de problemas.
NO Valorar la experiencia por encima de las aptitudes personales
- Conseguir que el participante se sienta cómodo es la mitad de la batalla. Las personas son menos expresivas en entornos nuevos y poco naturales. Los entornos de captura de datos son intrínsecamente antinaturales, por lo que hay que compensar el ambiente incómodo con un personal intuitivo y agradable. Contratar a especialistas en adquisición de datos con experiencia en atención al cliente o con una gran inteligencia emocional le llevará mucho más lejos que contratar a personas con experiencia técnica.
PLANIFICACIÓN
Los datos de expresión que decida capturar variarán en función del caso de uso y de la disponibilidad de recursos. Los errores más comunes en la planificación incluyen:
Evite las guías deficientes y las imágenes imprecisas
- Debido a la falta de conocimientos sobre los matices de las expresiones, la mayoría de las guías de posado tienen descripciones incorrectas o ejemplos visuales inexactos. Para reducir este problema, es crucial consultar con expertos o dedicar tiempo/materiales de formación (como el Manual del Sistema de Codificación de Acciones Faciales) a miembros designados de su equipo.
AAnular posturas redundantes o irrelevantes
- A common issue with expression capture is redundancy. While it is important to gather a diverse expression set with various poses/pose combinations, it is crucial to not waste energy on unnecessary poses. Some facial actions combine intuitively; some do not. Some upper face expressions impact the look of the lower face, and some lower face expressions impact the look of the upper face. Some do not. If your team is mindful of these impacts, you will be able to reduce nonessential pose combinations.
– For example, lip corner depressor is a lower face action that has little to no impact on the upper face. There is no immediate need to combine depresor de labios with upper face shapes – unless you need to capture a full sadness expression.
Avoid Leaving Out Important Shape Combinations
- As mentioned above, some shapes combine intuitively and some don’t. Being aware of how facial actions combine will allow you to create a diverse but streamlined set of expression poses. Which poses you need will depend on your available resources and underlying product needs.
Avoid Unstandardized Nomenclature
- Standardized terminology for each base expression already exists. Using standardized terminology will reduce miscommunication. Do not name your own poses unless you need poses that do not already have standardized names.
– An example of miscommunication caused by ambiguity of unstandardized terminology is the the word “frown.” Depending on your country of origin, the term “frown” can refer to either bajador de cejas o depresor de labios. In North America, “frown” refers to depresor de labios – hence the phrase, “Turn your frown upside down.” Such a saying would make no sense outside North America, as the rest of the world uses “frown” to indicate brow lowerer. - The best current naming system is the Facial Action Coding System. FACS is widely used and features clearly defined terms with detailed requirements.
- If you require poses that do not have official names, it is crucial to document your working definitions.
Avoid Failing to Encourage Cross-functional Communication
- Data acquisition teams, data annotation teams, engineering, research, and product management must stay in open communication. Data needs and quality are affected at all levels of productization. It is imperative to foster cross-functional communication between all roles to highlight different perspectives and insights.
Mejores prácticas para capturar expresiones posadas en Both Tecnología y Art/Entertainment
Mistakes to Avoid During Capture
DON’T Disclose Difficulty
- Many poses are challenging for people to hit. Do not tell your participant or actor when a pose is difficult until they have already attempted and failed. Each individual will struggle with different poses. Preemptively disclosing difficulty will bias your participant and/or cause them to overthink something that may have otherwise come naturally to them.
DON’t Make Participant Sustain Poses
- Certain facial muscles are not designed to be held for long periods of time. Some data processes require participants to hold poses for as long as three to five seconds. Such long duration will cause your model to experience expression fatigue. Expression fatigue greatly increases likelihood of co-activating unwanted facial muscles.
DON’T Force Participant to Pose Expressions They Cannot
- As mentioned above, challenges in hitting poses will differ across individuals. Some individuals will never be able to achieve certain poses. This inability may be the result of an individual’s lack of muscle control, but it can also be a product of anatomical diversity.
- Anatomical diversity in facial muscles is an under-discussed and under-researched topic. Various cadaver studies have identified significant morphological differences in our facial muscle makeup. In some studies, for example, as much as 40% of cadavers examined were missing the risorius muscle. Risorius is the muscle behind lip stretcher, a common target for basic pose shapes as well as emotion prototypes. Failing to consider morphological diversity will not only waste your time and your participant’s time – but it will cause unnecessary stress for the participant and acquisitionist.
Challenges in Expression Posing in Both Tecnología y Art/Entertainment
Upper Face
AU 1 – levantamiento de cejas

- Many people struggle to activate inner brow raiser without employing bajador de cejas. If you have the luxury of time to train your participant to isolate their brow movements – great! However, it may be best to move on if they cannot hit it in the first few tries.
- Another thing to note is that many people do not have the characterized inner brow raiser style shown in expression prototypes. When many people perform inner brow raiser, the medial portion of their forehead is wide and not as centrally isolated.
AU 6 – levantador de mejillas

- Elevador de mejillas is often contaminated with tensor de tapa and vice versa. However, one hack to get participants to at least locate their levantador de mejillas is to ask them to wink. Have them alternate winking on each side of their face while asking them to feel the movement in their cheeks. Though this trick should help create the feel for the muscle, it will not guarantee omission of tensor de tapa.
- Elevador de mejillas is also mistakenly replaced by or combined with tiralabios (mouth “smile”). While it may not be possible to separate levantador de mejillas de tensor de tapa in most participants, it is imperative to spend extra time to ensure participant is not co-activating tiralabios. Extractor de esquinas de labios affects the shape of the cheeks too much and will drown out the features from ...levantador de mejillas.
AU 7 – tensor de tapa

- As mentioned above, people often co-activate tensor de tapa con ...levantador de mejillas. As you increase the strength of tensor de tapa, the probability that your participant will activate levantador de mejillas increases dramatically. One way to mitigate this co-activation is to opt for a lower intensity tensor de tapa pose.
AU 9 – nose wrinkler**

**While arruga la nariz is technically considered a lower face action, it significantly impacts all areas of the face, including the eyes and eyebrows.
- The most common issues associated with arruga la nariz will appear in different parts of the face. Sometimes an individual can completely fail to employ arruga la nariz and instead activate bajador de cejas o elevador del labio superior.
- Getting rid of this problem can be as simple as asking your participant to lightly touch the bridge of their nose. This trick helps bring attention to the target area.
- If the nose bridge trick does not work, have your data acquisitionist give more thorough instructions to differentiate bajador de cejas y elevador del labio superior de nose wrinkler.
Lower Face
The lower face is much more complicated than the upper face. Please contact me (facetheFACS@melindaozel.com) for consultation on how to get the best out of posed lower face expressions.





