Authentic facial expression analysis

Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew, Ira Cohen, Yafei Sun, Theo Gevers, Thomas S. Huang

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Abstract

It is argued that for the computer to be able to interact with humans, it needs to have the communication skills of humans. One of these skills is the ability to understand the emotional state of the person. The most expressive way humans display emotions is through facial expressions. In most facial expression systems and databases, the emotion data was collected by asking the subjects to perform a series of facial expressions. However, these directed or deliberate facial action tasks typically differ in appearance and timing from the authentic facial expressions induced through events in the normal environment of the subject. In this paper, we present our effort in creating an authentic facial expression database based on spontaneous emotions derived from the environment. Furthermore, we test and compare a wide range of classifiers from the machine learning literature that can be used for facial expression classification.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FGR 2004
Pages517-522
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
EventProceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FGR 2004 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: May 17 2004May 19 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

Other

OtherProceedings - Sixth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FGR 2004
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period5/17/045/19/04

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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