Michael J. Lyons
Selected Publications


    An Interactive Character Animation System for Dementia Care
    Andreas Wiratanaya, Michael J. Lyons and Shinji Abe
    To be presented at Siggraph 2006

   New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME-06, Proceedings
    Norbert Schnell, Frederic Bevilacqua, Michael J. Lyons, Atau Tanaka (editors)
    IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, June 2006, ISBN  2-84426-314-3 (435 pages) Online Edition

   HCI and the Face
    Michael J. Lyons and Christoph Bartneck
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2006), Extended Abstracts, pp. 1671 - 1674 (2006)
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   Ambient Display using Musical Effects
    Luke Barrington, Michael J. Lyons, Dominique Diegmann, Shinji Abe 
    Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'06), pp. 372 - 374 (2006)

    Supporting Empathy in Online Learning with Artificial Expressions
    Michael J. Lyons, Daniel Kluender, Nobuji Tetsutani
    Journal of Educational Technology & Society 8(4), pp. 22-30 (2005) (297K PDF).

    Visual Perception in Japanese Rock Garden Design
    Gert J. Van Tonder and Michael J. Lyons
    Axiomathes 15(3), pp. 353-371 (1.9M PDF). IngentaConnect

    Segment and Browse: A Strategy for Supporting Human Monitoring of Facial Expression Behaviour
    Michael J. Lyons, Mathias Funk, Kazuhiro Kuwabara
    Interact 2005: Tenth IFIP IC13 Internationl Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (LNCS 3585), pp. 1120-1123 (2005). Springerlink.

    Sonification of Facial Actions for Musical Expression
    Mathias Funk, Kazuhiro Kuwabara, and Michael J. Lyons
    International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME-05 pp. 127-131 (2005). (971k PDF)

    Networked Interaction Therapy: Supporting People with Mild Dementia and their Family Members with Internet
    Kuwabara, K., Tetsutani, N., Kuwahara, N., Kawato, S., Lyons, M. J., Utsumi, A., Yanagida, Y., and Yasuda, K.
    20th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International Kyoto 2004, Abstracts, p.377 (2004).

    Facial Gesture Interfaces for Expression and Communication
    Michael J. Lyons
    International Conference on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, SMC'04 (in press, 2004). (1.2M PDF)

    Facial Gesture Interfaces for Hands-Free Input
    Michael J. Lyons, Gamhewage C. de Silva, Kazuhiro Kuwabara
    18th British HCI Group Annual Conference HCI-2004, pp.57-60 (2004).

    Enhancing Web-based Learning by Sharing Affective Experience (ICALT Best Paper Award)
    Michael J. Lyons, Daniel Kluender, Nobuji Tetsutani
    International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT'04, pp. 286-290 (2004). (507K PDF)

    Vision Based Acquisition of Mouth Actions for Human-Computer Interaction
    Gamhewage C. de Silva, Michael J. Lyons , Nobuji Tetsutani
    Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2004, pp. 959 - 960 (2004)

    A Novel Face-tracking Mouth Controller and its Application to Interacting with Bioascoustic Models
    Gamhewage C. de Silva, Tamara Smyth, Michael J. Lyons
    2004 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-04), pp. 169-172 (2004). (475K PDF)

    New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME-04, Proceedings
    Yoichi Nagashima and  Michael J. Lyons  (editors)
    Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, June 2006, Online Edition (217 pages)

    MouthType: Text Entry by Hand and Mouth
    Michael J. Lyons, Chi-ho Chan, Nobuji Tetsutani
    CHI 2004 Extended Abstracts, pp. 1383-1386. (462K PDF)

   Mouthbrush: Drawing and Painting by Hand and Mouth
    Chi-ho Chan, Michael J. Lyons, Nobuji Tetsutani
    ICMI-PUI 2003 pp. 277-280. (580K PDF)

    Vital Signs: Exploring Novel Forms of Body Language
    Michael J. Lyons, Daniel Kluender, Chi-Ho Chan, Nobuji Tetsutani
    Siggraph 2003. (169K PDF)

    Human Factors Evaluation of a Vision-Based Facial Gesture Interface
    Gamhewage C. De Silva, Michael J. Lyons, Shinjiro Kawato, Nobuji Tetsutani
    IEEE CVPR-HCI 2003 (555K PDF).

    Designing, Playing, and Performing with a Vision-Based Mouth Interface
    Michael J. Lyons, Michael Haehnel, Nobuji Tetsutani
    2003 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-03), pp. 116-121 (2003)
(386K PDF) 

    Les Masques Nô
    Michael Lyons & Ruth Campbell
    Pour La Science 303: 104-105, 2003 (French Edition of Scientific American). (558K pdf)

    Le Squelette du Jardin
    Michael Lyons & Gert Van Tonder
    Pour La Science 302: 158-159, 2002 (French Edition of Scientific American). (920K pdf)

    Visual Structure of a Japanese Zen Garden
    Gert J. Van Tonder, Michael J. Lyons, Yoshimichi Ejima
    Nature 419, pp. 359-360 (Sept. 26, 2002 issue). (100K PDF),
    Supplementary Info. (49K PDF), Japanese Version of the Paper (52K PDF)

    Visual Perception in Karesansui Gardens
    Gert J. Van Tonder, Michael J. Lyons, Yoshimichi Ejima
    17th Congress of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics
    pp. 215--218. (224K PDF)

    Calming Visual Spaces: Learning from Kyoto Zen Gardens
    Michael J. Lyons, Gert J. Van Tonder, Nobuji Tetsutani, Ian Shortreed
    Siggraph 2002
Conference Abstracts, p. 154. (1.5M PDF)

    Cultural Differences in Facial Expression Classification
    Matthew N. Dailey, Michael J. Lyons, Miyuki Kamachi, Hanae Ishi, Jiro Gyoba, & Garrison Cottrell
    Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 9th Annual Meeting, p. 153.

    New Interfaces for Musical Expression: CHI 2001 Workshop Report
    Ivan Poupyrev, Michael J. Lyons, Sidney Fels, Tina Blaine (Bean)
    SIGCHI Bulletin 34(2): 13-14,21-26 (March/April 2002)

    The Mouthesizer: A Facial Gesture Musical Interface
     Michael J. Lyons, Michael Haehnel, Nobuji Tetsutani
     Conference Abstracts, Siggraph 2001, Los Angeles, p. 230. (234K PDF)

   New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME-01, Proceedings
    Ivan Poupyrev, Michael J. Lyons, Sidney Fels, Tina Blaine (editors)
    Online Proceedings

    Facing the Music: A Facial Action Controlled Musical Interface
    Michael J. Lyons & Nobuji Tetsutani
    Proceedings, CHI 2001, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
    March 31 - April 5, Seattle, pp. 309-310. (150K PDF)

     The Noh Mask Effect: Vertical Viewpoint Dependence of Facial Expression Perception.
     Michael Lyons, Ruth Campbell, Andre Plante, Mike Coleman, Miyuki Kamachi & Shigeru Akamatsu
     Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267: 2239-2245 (2000). (456K pdf)

     The Noh Mask Effect: Culture and View Dependent Facial Expression Perception
     M. J.  Lyons, A. Plante, M. Kamachi, S. Akamatsu, R. Campbell and M. Coleman
     XIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (2000)    

     Viewpoint Dependent Facial Expression Recognition: Japanese Noh Masks and the Human Face.
     Michael J. Lyons, Andre Plante, Miyuki Kamachi, Shigeru Akamatsu, Ruth Campbell & Mike Coleman
     22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
     
pp.322-327 (2000)  (461K PDF)

     A Linked Aggregate Code for Processing Faces
     Michael J. Lyons, Kazunori Morikawa, & Shigeru Akamatsu
     Pragmatics & Cognition 8(1): 63-81 (2000).

     Classifying Facial Attributes Using a 2-D Gabor Wavelet Representation and Discriminant Analysis
     Michael J. Lyons, Julien Budynek, Andre Plante, & Shigeru Akamatsu
     4th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
     28-30 March, 2000, Grenoble France, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 202-207.  (436K PDF) 

     Automatic Classification of Single Facial Images
     Michael J. Lyons, Julien Budynek, & Shigeru Akamatsu
     IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 21 (12): 1357-1362 (1999). (1.7M PDF)
     

     Extracting Symbolic Information from Facial Images
     M. J. Lyons, J. Budynek, and S. Akamatsu
     3rd International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems pp.427-430  (1999)

     Recognition of orientation-filtered facial expressions
     A. Calder, M. Lyons, I. Christoffels, and S. Akamatsu
     European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP'99) Vol. 28, p.112, (1999)

     
An Illusion of Facial Expression Perception in Japanese Noh Masks
     M. J. Lyons, R. Campbell, A. Plante, M. Coleman, M. Kamachi, and S. Akamatsu
     European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP'99), Vol. 28, p.53  (1999)

     
Classifying Images of Facial Expression Using a Gabor Wavelet Representation
     M. J. Lyons, J.Budynek, and S.Akamatsu
     2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science, pp.113-118 (1999)

     Avatar Creation using Automatic Face Recognition
     Michael J. Lyons, Andre Plante, Sebastien Jehan, Seiki Inoue & Shigeru Akamatsu
     ACM Multimedia 98, Bristol, England, Sept. 1998, pp. 427-434.  (604K PDF, On line Proceedings)

     Can Perceived Facial Attractiveness be Represented by a Linear Scale?
     M. J. Lyons, S.Jehan, and S.Akamatsu
     European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP'98), Oxford, UK, Vol.27, p.129, Aug. 1998         

     Comparison between geometry-based and Gabor-wavelets-based facial expression recognition using
     multi-layer perceptron
     Zhengyou Zhang, Michael Lyons, Michael Schuster & Shigeru Akamatsu
     3rd IEEE International Conference on Automatic Faceand Gesture Recognition,
     April 14-16 1998, Nara Japan, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 454-459.  (2.3M PDF)

     Coding Facial Expressions with Gabor Wavelets
     Michael J. Lyons, Shigeru Akamatsu, Miyuki Kamachi & Jiro Gyoba
     3rd IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition,
     April 14-16 1998, Nara Japan, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 200-205.  (478K PDF)

     Gabor-based Coding and Facial Similarity Perception
     M. J. Lyons, K.Morikawa, and S.Akamatsu
     European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP'97) Vol.26, p.54, (1997)

     VI Similarity Measure Recovers Dimensions of Facial Expression Perception
     M.Lyons, M.Kamachi, P.Tran, J.Gyoba, and S.Akamatsu
     ARVO '97, Abstracts, Part II, Vol.38, No.4, p.S1002 (1997)

   
A model based on V1 cell responses predicts human perception of facial similarity
     M.J. Lyons, and K. Morikawa
     Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Vol. 37: p. 910 (1996)

     Stripe Selection: An Intrinsic Property of some Pattern-forming Models with Nonlinear Dynamics

     Michael J. Lyons and Lionel G. Harrison
     Developmental Dynamics 195(3): pp. 201-215 (1992)

    A Class of Reaction-diffusion Mechanisms which Preferentially Select Striped Patterns
     Michael J. Lyons and Lionel G. Harrison
     Chemical Physics Letters, 183(1-2) pp. 158-164 (1991)

    Reaction diffusion modelling of biological pattern formation: Application to the embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster
    MJ Lyons, LG Harrison, BC Lakowski, TC Lacalli
    Canadian Journal of Physics 68, pp. 772 - (1990)







Selected Media Reports

Visual Perception of Japanese Gardens

   Zen garden secrets revealed BBC News September 26, 2002

Mouthesizer

    Mouth-based Music Control NewScientist August 17, 2001

Noh Mask Effect

   Noh Subtlety for the British Nature Science Update November 8, 2000

Face Recognition

    Modeling face recognition BioScience vol. 46(11), December 1996

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