Expressive Maps for 3D Facial Expression Recognition

Omar Ocegueda, Tianhong Fang, Shishir K. Shah, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

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18 Scopus citations

Abstract

We present a semi-automatic 3D Facial Expression Recognition system based on geometric facial information. In this approach the 3D facial meshes are first fitted to an Annotated Face Model (AFM). Then the Expressive Maps are computed which indicate the parts of the face that are most expressive according to a particular geometric feature (e.g. vertex coordinates normals and local curvature). The Expressive Maps provide a way to analyze the geometric features in terms of their discriminative information and their distribution along the face and allow the reduction of the dimensionality of the input space to 2:5% of the original size. Using the selected features a simple linear classifier was trained and yielded a very competitive average recognition rate of 90:4% when evaluated using ten-fold cross validation on the publicly available BU-3DFE database.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2011
Pages1270-1275
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2011 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: Nov 6 2011Nov 13 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2011
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period11/6/1111/13/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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