Facial expression recognition based on facial region segmentation and modal value approach

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E97-D, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 928-935

  Benitez Garcia, Gibran ^a,b   Sanchez Perez, Gabriel ^b   Perez Meana, Hector ^b   Takahashi, Keita ^a   Kaneko, Masahide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Facial expression recognition; Facial segmentation; Modal value; Partial occlusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FACE IMAGES; FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; FACIAL REGIONS; FEATURE VECTORS; MODAL VALUES; PARTIAL OCCLUSIONS; PHASE SPECTRA; SUB-BLOCKS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84897399064     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.928     Document Type: Article

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