Local 3D Shape Analysis for Facial Expression Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Ahmed Maalej;Boulbaba Ben Amor;Mohamed Daoudi;Anuj Srivastava;Stefano Berretti

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '10 Proceedings of the 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We investigate the problem of facial expression recognition using 3D face data. Our approach is based on local shape analysis of several relevant regions of a given face scan. These regions or patches from facial surfaces are extracted and represented by sets of closed curves. A Riemannian framework is used to derive the shape analysis of the extracted patches. The applied framework permits to calculate a similarity (or dissimilarity) distances between patches, and to compute the optimal deformation between them. Once calculated, these measures are employed as inputs to a commonly used classification techniques such as AdaBoost and Support Vector Machines (SVM). A quantitative evaluation of our novel approach is conducted on a subset of the publicly available BU-3DFE database.