Systems and methods for enhancement of facial expressions

A method of enhancing a facial expression, comprising:

• receiving video of a user;
• generating facial data corresponding to a face of the user;
• analyzing the facial data to identify a facial expression;
• enhancing the facial data based on the facial expression, wherein enhancing the facial data comprises replacing a portion of the facial data with stored facial data corresponding to a previously captured facial expression of the user;
• outputting modified video including the enhanced facial data;
• prompting the user to make at least one target expression, the at least one target expression including the previously captured facial expression;
• and
• comparing the facial expression to a previously stored expression.

A method of modifying a facial expression, comprising:

• receiving video of a user;
• analyzing the video to determine a face of the user;
• analyzing the user's face to determine a facial expression;
• analyzing the facial expression to infer an emotion of the user;
• modifying the video based on the emotion, wherein modifying the video alters the facial expression;
• and
• outputting the modified video to a recipient;
• wherein modifying the video is based on a condition of communication with the recipient, wherein modifying the video comprises modifying the video based on a comparison of the facial expression to a previously captured facial expression of the user, wherein the user is prompted to make a target expression, and wherein the previously captured facial expression comprises the target expression made by the user.

A method for generating visual information relating to a facial expression, comprising:

• receiving video of a user;
• analyzing the video to determine a face of the user;
• analyzing the user's face to determine a facial expression;
• analyzing the facial expression to infer an emotion of the user;
• generating visual information based on the inferred emotion, wherein the visual information is at least one of textual information and a separate video portion;
• outputting the visual information and the video simultaneously;
• prompting the user to make a target expression, the target expression including a previously captured facial expression;
• and
• comparing the facial expression to the previously captured facial expression.