Facial Expression Recognition with Pseudo-3D Hidden Markov Models

  • Authors:
  • Frank Hülsken;Frank Wallhoff;Gerhard Rigoll

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 23rd DAGM-Symposium on Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We introduce a novel approach to gesture recognition, based on Pseudo-3D Hidden Markov Models (P3DHMMs). This technique is capable of integrating spatially and temporally derived features in an elegant way, thus enabling the recognition of different dynamic face-expressions. Pseudo-2D Hidden Markov Models have been utilized for two dimensional problems such as face recognition. P3DHMMs can be considered as an extension of the 2D case, where the so-called superstates in P3DHMM encapsulate P2DHMMs. With our new approach image sequences can efficiently and successfully be processed. Because the 'ordinary' training of P3DHMMs is time expensive and can destroy the 3D approach, an improved training is presented in this paper. The feasibility of the usage of P3DHMMs is demonstrated by a number of experiments on a person independent database, which consists of different image sequences of 4face-expressions from 6 persons.