Ensemble Approaches to Facial Action Unit Classification

Authors:
Terry Windeatt;Kaushala Dias
Affiliations:
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Proc (CVSSP), University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom GU2 7XH;Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Proc (CVSSP), University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom GU2 7XH
Venue:
CIARP '08 Proceedings of the 13th Iberoamerican congress on Pattern Recognition: Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Facial action unit (au) classification is an approach to face expression recognition that decouples the recognition of expression from individual actions. In this paper, upper face ausare classified using an ensemble of MLP (Multi-layer perceptron) base classifiers with feature ranking based on PCA components. This approach is compared experimentally with other popular feature-ranking methods applied to Gabor features. Experimental results on Cohn-Kanade database demonstrate that the MLP ensemble is relatively insensitive to the feature-ranking method but optimized PCA features achieve lowest error rate. When posed as a multi-class problem using Error-Correcting-Output-Coding (ECOC), error rates are comparable to two-class problems (one-versus-rest) when the number of features and base classifier are optimized.