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Abstract

Facial expressions are universal symbols of emotions that provide cohesion to interpersonal communication. At the same time, the changes in facial expressions are considered to be the most important hints in the psychology of emotion. Facial expression analysis has widespread range of application in areas such as analysis of human behaviors, human-human interaction and human-computer interaction. While humans do not have any difficulty for recognizing and interpreting facial expressions, it is challenging problem for the computers. However, especially with advances in human-computer interaction, understanding the human emotions by computer has become an indispensable issue. Furthermore, analysis and recognition of facial expressions has pervaded in various areas such as security, psychology, health, robotics and virtual reality. For these reasons, the analyzing of facial expressions quickly and the recognition of facial expressions correctly according to the analyzed facial expressions play a critical role for many software systems in different applications. In this study, the methods used in the analysis of facial expressions and the studies in the literature on emotion recognition were investigated.