Hough forest-based facial expression recognition from video sequences

  • Authors:
  • Gabriele Fanelli;Angela Yao;Pierre-Luc Noel;Juergen Gall;Luc Van Gool

  • Affiliations:
  • BIWI, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, VISICS, K.U. Leuven, Belgium;BIWI, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, VISICS, K.U. Leuven, Belgium;BIWI, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, VISICS, K.U. Leuven, Belgium;BIWI, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, VISICS, K.U. Leuven, Belgium;BIWI, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, VISICS, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Trends and Topics in Computer Vision - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Automatic recognition of facial expression is a necessary step toward the design of more natural human-computer interaction systems. This work presents a user-independent approach for the recognition of facial expressions from image sequences. The faces are normalized in scale and rotation based on the eye centers' locations into tracks from which we extract features representing shape and motion. Classification and localization of the center of the expression in the video sequences are performed using a Hough transform voting method based on randomized forests. We tested our approach on two publicly available databases and achieved encouraging results comparable to the state of the art.