Facial Expression Recognition Based on Wavelet Energy Distribution Feature and Neural Network Ensemble

  • Authors:
  • Chen Feng-jun;Wang Zhi-liang;Xu Zheng-guang;Xiao Jiang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • GCIS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 WRI Global Congress on Intelligent Systems - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Facial expression recognition is necessary for designing any human-machine interfaces. A novel facial expression recognition method based on the Wavelet energy feature and neural network ensemble classifier is proposed in this paper. And six basic expressions – anger, disgust, surprise, happiness, fear and sadness are analyzed. Firstly, wavelet transform is used for static facial expression images and the wavelet energy is extracted from various sub-areas as facial expression features; Secondly, the neural network ensemble based on Bagging algorithm is used to offer the classifier trainings on facial expression recognition. Experiments results demonstrate an expression classification accuracy of 75.9% on the CMU-PITTSBURGH AU-Coded Face Expression Image Database, which conduct classification more accurately than other single neural network.