Person-independent expression recognition based on person-similarity weighted expression feature

Huachun Tan*, Yujin Zhang, Hao Chen, Yanan Zhao, Wuhong Wang

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Abstract

A new method to extract person-independent expression feature based on higher-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) is proposed for facial expression recognition. Based on the assumption that similar persons have similar facial expression appearance and shape, the person-similarity weighted expression feature is proposed to estimate the expression feature of test persons. As a result, the estimated expression feature can reduce the influence of individuals caused by insufficient training data, and hence become less person-dependent. The proposed method is tested on Cohn-Kanade facial expression database and Japanese female facial expression (JAFFE) database. Person-independent experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method over the existing methods.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)118-126
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Systems Engineering and Electronics
Volume21
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Feb 2010

Keywords

  • Facial expression recognition
  • Feature estimation
  • Higher-order singular value decomposition
  • Person-independent expression feature

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