Towards a full emotional system

Khadoudja Ghanem and Alice Caplier

Behaviour and Information Technology, 2013, vol. 32, issue 8, 783-799

Abstract: This study proposes a system that is able to classify a facial expression in one of the six categories, namely, Joy, Disgust, Anger, Sadness, Fear and Surprise and also to assign to each expression its intensity in the range: High, Medium and Low. This is carried out in two independent and parallel processes. Permanent and transient facial features are detected from still images, and pertinent information about the presence of transient features on specific facial regions and about facial distances computed from permanent facial features is extracted. Both classification and quantification processes are based on transient and permanent features. The belief theory is used with the two processes because of its ability in fusing data coming from different sensors. The system outputs a recognised and quantified expression. The quantification process allows recognising a new subset of expressions deduced from the basic ones. Indeed, by associating to each expression three intensities low, medium and high, we deduce three facial expressions. Finally, a set of 18 facial expressions is categorised instead of the six ones. Experimental results are given to show the system classification accuracy.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2011.624639

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