scholarly journals Facial Expression Recognition Based on Texture Features

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-148
Author(s):  
Alaa Nabeel Haj Najeb ◽  
Nasser Nasser

Facial expressions are a form of non-verbal communication, they appear as changes on the surface of the facial skin according to one's inner emotional states, aims, or social communications. Classification of these expressions is a normal process for humans, but it is a challenging task for machines.Lately, interest in facial expression recognition has grown, and many systems have been developed to classify expressions from facial images. Any expression recognition system is comprised of three steps. The first one is face acquisition, then feature extraction, and finally classification. The classification accuracy depends primarily on the feature extraction step.  Therefore, in this research we study many texture feature extraction descriptors and compare their results under the same preprocessing circumstances; moreover, we propose two improvements for one of these descriptors, which give better results than the original one. We validate the results on two commonly used databases for expression recognition using Matlab programming language, wishing all of that to be an interesting point for researchers in this field.

Author(s):  
Yi Ji ◽  
Khalid Idrissi

This paper proposes an automatic facial expression recognition system, which uses new methods in both face detection and feature extraction. In this system, considering that facial expressions are related to a small set of muscles and limited ranges of motions, the facial expressions are recognized by these changes in video sequences. First, the differences between neutral and emotional states are detected. Faces can be automatically located from changing facial organs. Then, LBP features are applied and AdaBoost is used to find the most important features for each expression on essential facial parts. At last, SVM with polynomial kernel is used to classify expressions. The method is evaluated on JAFFE and MMI databases. The performances are better than other automatic or manual annotated systems.


2015 ◽  
Vol 742 ◽  
pp. 257-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Sai Li ◽  
Zi Lu Ying ◽  
Bin Bin Huang

This paper was proposed a new algorithm for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) which was based on fusion of gabor texture features and Centre Binary Pattern (CBP). Firstly, gabor texture feature were extracted from every expression image. Five scales and eight orientations of gabor wavelet filters were used to extract gabor texture features. Then the CBP features were extracted from gabor feature images and adaboost algorithm was used to select final features from CBP feature images. Finally, we obtain expression recognition results on the final expression features by Sparse Representation-based Classification (SRC) method. The experiment results on Japanese Female Facial Expression (JAFFE) database demonstrated that the new algorithm had a much higher recognition rate than the traditional algorithms.


Author(s):  
Yi Ji ◽  
Khalid Idrissi

This paper proposes an automatic facial expression recognition system, which uses new methods in both face detection and feature extraction. In this system, considering that facial expressions are related to a small set of muscles and limited ranges of motions, the facial expressions are recognized by these changes in video sequences. First, the differences between neutral and emotional states are detected. Faces can be automatically located from changing facial organs. Then, LBP features are applied and AdaBoost is used to find the most important features for each expression on essential facial parts. At last, SVM with polynomial kernel is used to classify expressions. The method is evaluated on JAFFE and MMI databases. The performances are better than other automatic or manual annotated systems.


2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-632
Author(s):  
Aihua Li ◽  
Lei An ◽  
Zihui Che

With the development of computer vision, facial expression recognition has become a research hotspot. To further improve the accuracy of facial expression recognition, this paper probes deep into image segmentation, feature extraction, and facial expression classification. Firstly, the convolution neural network (CNN) was adopted to accurately separate the salient regions from the face image. Next, the Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) model was improved to enhance the ability of texture features to represent image information, and a novel feature extraction algorithm called specific angle abundance entropy (SAAE) was designed to improve the representation ability of shape features. After that, the texture features were combined with shape features, and trained and classified by the support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Finally, the proposed method was compared with common methods of facial expression recognition on a standard facial expression database. The results show that our method can greatly improve the accuracy of facial expression recognition.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1455-1476
Author(s):  
Xuejian Wang ◽  
Michael C. Fairhurst ◽  
Anne M.P. Canuto

Although several automatic computer systems have been proposed to address facial expression recognition problems, the majority of them still fail to cope with some requirements of many practical application scenarios. In this paper, one of the most influential and common issues raised in practical application scenarios when applying automatic facial expression recognition system, head pose variation, is comprehensively explored and investigated. In order to do this, two novel texture feature representations are proposed for implementing multi-view facial expression recognition systems in practical environments. These representations combine the block-based techniques with Local Ternary Pattern-based features, providing a more informative and efficient feature representation of the facial images. In addition, an in-house multi-view facial expression database has been designed and collected to allow us to conduct a detailed research study of the effect of out-of-plane pose angles on the performance of a multi-view facial expression recognition system. Along with the proposed in-house dataset, the proposed system is tested on two well-known facial expression databases, CK+ and BU-3DFE datasets. The obtained results shows that the proposed system outperforms current state-of-the-art 2D facial expression systems in the presence of pose variations.


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