Dynamic facial expression recognition based on K-order emotional intensity model

Abstract

With the development of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition, facial expression recognition plays a more and more important role in intelligent human-computer interaction. In this paper, we present a model named K-order emotional intensity model (K-EIM) which is based on K-Means clustering. Different from other related works, the proposed approach can quantify emotional intensity in an unsupervised way. And then the output from K-EIM is encoded. The coding results are used for the dynamic facial expression recognition. The experiment is conducted on Cohn-Kanade facial expression database and the support vector machine classifier is used for facial expression classification. This method achieved a dynamic facial expression recognition accuracy of 88.32% which suggest that the proposed method shows better performance and proves its validity. Moreover, effect of different segments of emotional intensity is also discussed in the paper.