Abstract
Most previous work of facial action recognition focused only on verifying whether a certain facial action unit appeared or not on a face image. In this paper, we report our investigation on the semantic relationships of facial action units and introduce a novel method for facial action unit recognition based on action unit classifiers and a Bayes network called Facial Action Unit Association Network (FAUAN). Compared with other methods, the proposed method attempts to identify a set of facial action units of a face image simultaneously. We achieve this goal by three steps. At first, the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) is extracted as features and after that, a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) is trained for the preliminary detection of each individual facial action unit. At last, FAUAN fuses the responses of all the facial action unit classifiers to determine a best set of facial action units. The proposed method achieves a promising performance on the extended Cohn-Kanade Dataset. Experimental results also show that when the individual unit classifiers are not so good, the performance could improve by nearly 10 % in some cases when FAUAN is used. Copyright © 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Computer vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops: Singapore, Singapore, November 1-2, 2014, revised selected papers, part I |
Editors | C.V. JAWAHAR, Shiguang SHAN |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 672-683 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319166285 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319166278 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Citation
Chen, J., Chen, Z., Chi, Z., & Fu, H. (2015). Recognition of facial action units with action unit classifiers and an association network. In C. V. Jawahar & S. Shan (Eds.), Computer vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops: Singapore, Singapore, November 1-2, 2014, revised selected papers, part I (pp. 672-683). Cham: Springer.Keywords
- Support vector machine
- Facial expression
- Face image
- Action unit
- Local Binary Pattern