Emotion Recognition Using a Cauchy Naive Bayes Classifier

  • Authors:
  • Nicu Sebe;Michael S. Lew;Ira Cohen;Ashutosh Garg;Thomas S. Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '02 Proceedings of the 16 th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Recognizing human facial expression and emotion by computer is an interesting and challenging problem. In this paper we propose a method for recognizing emotions through facial expressions displayed in video sequences. We introduce the Cauchy Naive Bayes classifier which uses the Cauchy distribution as the model distribution and we provide a framework for choosing the best model distribution assumption. Our person-dependent andperson-independent experiments show that the Cauchy distribution assumption typically provides better results than the Gaussian distribution assumption.