Facial Landmark-based Approach for Classification of Children’s Facial Expressions and Facial Action Codes

Description/Abstract/Artist Statement

Classification of facial expressions from children is a relatively unexplored area in the literature as few facial expression datasets taken of children exist. To explore and understand the classification of children’s facial expressions, images from the Child Affective Face Set (CAFE) are classified by facial expression using features based on facial landmark points. One limitation of CAFE is that it is not encoded with the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), which describes facial movements based on anatomical analysis. To address this limitation, we also propose a method for FACS classification of the CAFE dataset. The Discriminative Response Map Fitting (DRMF) toolbox is used to extract 66 landmark points on the face. Interpoint distance features are computed as the Euclidean distance between facial landmark point pairs. Interpoint distance features are then scaled between [-1.0, 1.0]. Multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to classify two subsets of images from the CAFE dataset: the full dataset and a reduced dataset removing images where the child posed with mouth open or tongue protrusion. Grid search is used to identify appropriate parameters for the SVM classifier. The FACS-encoded the Extended Cohn-Kanade Facial Expression Set (CK+) is used to train a FACS classier using a combination of interpoint distance and texture features.

Presenting Author Name/s

Megan Witherow

Faculty Advisor/Mentor

Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin

Presentation Type

Poster

Disciplines

Other Electrical and Computer Engineering

Session Title

Poster Session

Location

Learning Commons @ Perry Library, Northwest Atrium

Start Date

2-3-2018 8:00 AM

End Date

2-3-2018 12:30 PM

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Facial Landmark-based Approach for Classification of Children’s Facial Expressions and Facial Action Codes

Learning Commons @ Perry Library, Northwest Atrium

Classification of facial expressions from children is a relatively unexplored area in the literature as few facial expression datasets taken of children exist. To explore and understand the classification of children’s facial expressions, images from the Child Affective Face Set (CAFE) are classified by facial expression using features based on facial landmark points. One limitation of CAFE is that it is not encoded with the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), which describes facial movements based on anatomical analysis. To address this limitation, we also propose a method for FACS classification of the CAFE dataset. The Discriminative Response Map Fitting (DRMF) toolbox is used to extract 66 landmark points on the face. Interpoint distance features are computed as the Euclidean distance between facial landmark point pairs. Interpoint distance features are then scaled between [-1.0, 1.0]. Multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to classify two subsets of images from the CAFE dataset: the full dataset and a reduced dataset removing images where the child posed with mouth open or tongue protrusion. Grid search is used to identify appropriate parameters for the SVM classifier. The FACS-encoded the Extended Cohn-Kanade Facial Expression Set (CK+) is used to train a FACS classier using a combination of interpoint distance and texture features.