ESTIMATION OF FACIAL EXPRESSION INTENSITY BASED ON THE BELIEF THEORY

Khadoudja Ghanem, Alice Caplier, Sébastien Stillittano

2008

Abstract

This article presents a new method to estimate the intensity of a human facial expression. Supposing an expression occurring on a face has been recognized among the six universal emotions (joy, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear), the estimation of the expression’s intensity is based on the determination of the degree of geometrical deformations of some facial features and on the analysis of several distances computed on skeletons of expressions. These skeletons are the result of a contour segmentation of facial permanent features (eyes, brows, mouth). The proposed method uses the belief theory for data fusion. The intensity of the recognized expression is scored on a three-point ordinal scale: "low intensity", "medium intensity" or " high intensity". Experiments on a great number of images validate our method and give good estimation for facial expression intensity. We have implemented and tested the method on the following three expressions: joy, surprise and disgust.

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Ghanem K., Caplier A. and Stillittano S. (2008). ESTIMATION OF FACIAL EXPRESSION INTENSITY BASED ON THE BELIEF THEORY . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 452-460. DOI: 10.5220/0001076204520460


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@conference{visapp08,
author={Khadoudja Ghanem and Alice Caplier and Sébastien Stillittano},
title={ESTIMATION OF FACIAL EXPRESSION INTENSITY BASED ON THE BELIEF THEORY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={452-460},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001076204520460},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - ESTIMATION OF FACIAL EXPRESSION INTENSITY BASED ON THE BELIEF THEORY
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Ghanem K.
AU - Caplier A.
AU - Stillittano S.
PY - 2008
SP - 452
EP - 460
DO - 10.5220/0001076204520460