A coarse-to-fine classification scheme for facial expression recognition

Xiaoyi Feng, Abdenour Hadid, Matti Pietikäinen

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Abstract

In this paper, a coarse-to-fine classification scheme is used to recognize facial expressions (angry, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness and surprise) of novel expressers from static images. In the coarse stage, the sevenclass problem is reduced to a two-class one as follows: First, seven model vectors are produced, corresponding to the seven basic facial expressions. Then, distances from each model vector to the feature vector of a testing sample are calculated. Finally, two of the seven basic expression classes are selected as the testing sample's expression candidates (candidate pair). In the fine classification stage, a K-nearcst neighbor classifier fulfils final classification. Experimental results on the JAFFE database demonstrate an average recognition rate of 77% for novel expressers, which outperforms the reported results on the same database.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsAurelio Campilho, Mohamed Kamel
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages668-675
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)3540232400, 9783540232407
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3212
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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