Abstract
Currently available local feature descriptors used in facial expression recognition at times suffer from unstable feature descriptions, especially in the presence of weak and distorted edges due to noise, limiting their performances. We propose a novel local descriptor named Neighborhood-aware Edge Directional Pattern (NEDP) to overcome such limitations. Instead of relying solely on the local neighborhood to describe the feature around a pixel, as done by the existing local descriptors, NEDP examines the gradients at the target (center) pixel as well as its neighboring pixels to explore a wider neighborhood for the consistency of the feature in spite of the presence of subtle distortion and noise in local region. We introduce template-orientations for the neighboring pixels, which give importance to the gradients in consistent edge directions, prioritizing the specific neighbors falling in the direction of the local edge to represent the shape of the local textures, unambiguously. Moreover, due to the effective management of the featureless regions, no such region is erroneously encoded as a feature by NEDP. Experiments of the performances for person-independent recognition on benchmark expression datasets also show that NEDP performs better than other existing descriptors, and thereby, improves the overall performance of facial expression recognition.
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