When automatic facial expression recognition is applied to video sequences of speaking subjects, the recognition accuracy has been noted to be lower than with video sequences of still subjects. This effect known as the speaking effect arises during spontaneous conversations, and along with the affective expressions the speech articulation process influences facial configurations. In this work we question whether, aside from facial features, other cues relating to the articulation process would increase emotion recognition accuracy when added in input to a deep neural network model. We develop two neural networks that classify facial expressions in speaking subjects from the RAVDESS dataset, a spatio-temporal CNN and a GRU cell RNN. They are first trained on facial features only, and afterwards both on facial features and articulation related cues extracted from a model trained for lip reading, while varying the number of consecutive frames provided in input as well. We show that using DNNs the addition of features related to articulation increases classification accuracy up to 12%, the increase being greater with more consecutive frames provided in input to the model.
Improving the accuracy of automatic facial expression recognition in speaking subjects with deep learning / S. Bursic, G. Boccignone, A. Ferrara, A. D'Amelio, R. Lanzarotti. - In: APPLIED SCIENCES. - ISSN 2076-3417. - 10:11(2020 Jun), pp. 4002.1-4002.15.
Titolo: | Improving the accuracy of automatic facial expression recognition in speaking subjects with deep learning |
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Parole Chiave: | Affective computing; Deep learning; Emotion recognition; Facial expression recognition; Speaking effect |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore INF/01 - Informatica Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni |
Progetto: | Stairway to elders: bridging space, time and emotions in their social environment for wellbeing |
Data di pubblicazione: | giu-2020 |
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Tipologia: | Article (author) |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10114002 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01 - Articolo su periodico |
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