Recognizing Facial Expressions: A Comparison of Computational Approaches

  • Authors:
  • Aruna Shenoy;Tim M. Gale;Neil Davey;Bruce Christiansen;Ray Frank

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom AL10 9AB;School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom AL10 9AB and Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, UK AL7 4HQ;School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom AL10 9AB;School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom AL10 9AB;School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom AL10 9AB

  • Venue:
  • ICANN '08 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Recognizing facial expressions are a key part of human social interaction,and processing of facial expression information is largely automatic, but it is a non-trivial task for a computational system. The purpose of this work is to develop computational models capable of differentiating between a range of human facial expressions. Raw face images are examples of high dimensional data, so here we use some dimensionality reduction techniques: Linear Discriminant Analysis, Principal Component Analysis and Curvilinear Component Analysis. We also preprocess the images with a bank of Gabor filters, so that important features in the face images are identified. Subsequently the faces are classified using a Support Vector Machine. We show that it is possible to differentiate faces with a neutral expression from those with a smiling expression with high accuracy. Moreover we can achieve this with data that has been massively reduced in size: in the best case the original images are reduced to just 11 dimensions.