Emotion-independent face recognition

Liyanage C. De Silva; Kho Guan Poh Esther

doi:10.1117/12.411839

29 December 2000 Emotion-independent face recognition

Liyanage C. De Silva, Kho Guan Poh Esther

Proceedings Volume 4310, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2001; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.411839
Event: Photonics West 2001 - Electronic Imaging, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Current face recognition techniques tend to work well when recognizing faces under small variations in lighting, facial expression and pose, but deteriorate under more extreme conditions. In this paper, a face recognition system to recognize faces of known individuals, despite variations in facial expression due to different emotions, is developed. The eigenface approach is used for feature extraction. Classification methods include Euclidean distance, back propagation neural network and generalized regression neural network. These methods yield 100% recognition accuracy when the training database is representative, containing one image representing the peak expression for each emotion of each person apart from the neutral expression. The feature vectors used for comparison in the Euclidean distance method and for training the neural network must be all the feature vectors of the training set. These results are obtained for a face database consisting of only four persons.

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Liyanage C. De Silva and Kho Guan Poh Esther "Emotion-independent face recognition", Proc. SPIE 4310, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2001, (29 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.411839

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