Automated facial expression recognition system using neural networks

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Transactions of the Chinese Institute of Engineers,Series A/Chung-kuo Kung Ch'eng Hsuch K'an

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 345-356

  Chang, Jyh Yeong ^a   Chen, Jia Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Facial action unit; Facial expression recognition; Neural classifier; Point contour detection method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

FACIAL ACTION UNIT; FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; POINT CONTOUR DETECTION; ROUGH CONTOUR ESTIMATION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035333248     PISSN: 02533839     EISSN: 21587299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02533839.2001.9670632     Document Type: Article

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