A novel feature extraction method using pyramid histogram of orientation gradients for smile recognition

Authors:
Yang Bai;Lihua Guo;Lianwen Jin;Qinghua Huang
Affiliations:
School of Electronic and Information, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China;School of Electronic and Information, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China;School of Electronic and Information, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China;School of Electronic and Information, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China
Venue:
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Recognizing smiles is of much importance for detecting happy moods. Gabor features are conventionally widely applied to facial expression recognition, but the number of Gabor features is usually too large. We proposed to use Pyramid Histogram of Oriented Gradients (PHOG) as the features extracted for smile recognition in this paper. The comparisons between the PHOG and Gabor features using a publicly available dataset demonstrated that the PHOG with a significantly shorter vector length could achieve as high a recognition rate as the Gabor features did. Furthermore, the feature selection conducted by an AdaBoost algorithm was not needed when using the PHOG features. To further improve the recognition performance, we combined these two feature extraction methods and achieved the best smile recognition rate, indicating a good value of the PHOG features for smile recognitions.