The effect of facial expression recognition based on the dimensions of emotion using PCA representation and neural networks

  • Authors:
  • Young-Suk Shin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Communication Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A new approach for recognizing facial expressions in various internal states that is illumination-invariant and without detectable cues such as a neutral expression is proposed. First, we propose a zero-phase whitening step of the images for illumination-invariant. Second, we developed a representation of face images based on principal component analysis(PCA) representation excluded the first 1 principle component as the features for facial expression recognition, regardless of neutral expression. The PCA basis vectors for this data set had reflected well the changes in facial expression. Finally, a neural network model for classification of facial expressions based on dimension model was created. The dimensional model recognizes not only six facial expressions related to six basic emotions (happiness, sadness, surprise, angry, fear, disgust), but also expressions of various internal states. PCA representations excluded the first 1 principle component and neural network model on the two-dimensional structure of emotion have improved the limitation of expression recognition based on a small number of discrete categories of emotional expressions, and have overcome the problems of lighting sensitivity and dependence on cues such as a neutral expression.