A novel real time system for facial expression recognition

Xiaoyi Feng, Matti Pietikäinen, Abdenour Hadid, Hongmei Xie

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Abstract

In this paper, a fully automatic, real-time system is proposed to recognize seven basic facial expressions (angry, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness and surprise), which is insensitive to illumination changes. First, face is located and normalized based on an illumination insensitive skin model and face segmentation; then, the basic Local Binary Patterns (LBP) technique, which is invariant to monotonic grey level changes, is used for facial feature extraction; finally, a coarse-to-fine scheme is used for expression classification. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed system performs well in variable illumination and some degree of head rotation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAffective Computing and Intelligent Interaction - First International Conference, ACII 2005, Proceedings
Pages248-256
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event1st International Conference on ffective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2005 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Oct 200524 Oct 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3784 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on ffective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2005
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/10/0524/10/05

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