3D Facial expression recognition based on automatically selected features

Hao Tang, Thomas S. Huang

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Abstract

In this paper, the problem of person-independent facial expression recognition from 3D facial shapes is investigated. We propose a novel automatic feature selection method based on maximizing the average relative entropy of marginalized class-conditional feature distributions and apply it to a complete pool of candidate features composed of normalized Euclidean distances between 83 facial feature points in the 3D space. Using a regularized multi-class AdaBoost classification algorithm, we achieve a 95.1% average recognition rate for six universal facial expressions on the publicly available 3D facial expression database BU-3DFE [1], with a highest average recognition rate of 99.2% for the recognition of surprise. We compare these results with the results based on a set of manually devised features and demonstrate that the auto features yield better results than the manual features. Our results outperform the results presented in the previous work [2] and [3], namely average recognition rates of 83.6% and 91.3% on the same database, respectively.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops - Anchorage, AK, United States
Duration: Jun 23 2008Jun 28 2008

Publication series

Name2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops

Other

Other2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnchorage, AK
Period6/23/086/28/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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