Deep Emotion Recognition through Upper Body Movements and Facial Expression

Chaudhary Muhammad Aqdus Ilyas, Chaudhary Muhammad Aqdus Ilyas, Rita Nunes, Kamal Nasrollahi, Matthias Rehm, Thomas B. Moeslund

2021

Abstract

Despite recent significant advancements in the field of human emotion recognition, applying upper body movements along with facial expressions present severe challenges in the field of human-robot interaction. This article presents a model that learns emotions through upper body movements and corresponds with facial expressions. Once this correspondence is mapped, tasks such as emotion and gesture recognition can easily be identified using facial features and movement vectors. Our method uses a deep convolution neural network trained on benchmark datasets exhibiting various emotions and corresponding body movements. Features obtained through facial movements and body motion are fused to get emotion recognition performance. We have implemented various fusion methodologies to integrate multimodal features for non-verbal emotion identification. Our system achieves 76.8% accuracy of emotion recognition through upper body movements only, surpassing 73.1% on the FABO dataset. In addition, employing multimodal compact bilinear pooling with temporal information surpassed the state-of-the-art method with an accuracy of 94.41% on the FABO dataset. This system can lead to better human-machine interaction by enabling robots to recognize emotions and body actions and react according to their emotions, thus enriching the user experience.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ilyas C., Nunes R., Nasrollahi K., Rehm M. and Moeslund T. (2021). Deep Emotion Recognition through Upper Body Movements and Facial Expression. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 5: VISAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-488-6, SciTePress, pages 669-679. DOI: 10.5220/0010359506690679

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp21,
author={Chaudhary Muhammad Aqdus Ilyas and Rita Nunes and Kamal Nasrollahi and Matthias Rehm and Thomas B. Moeslund},
title={Deep Emotion Recognition through Upper Body Movements and Facial Expression},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 5: VISAPP},
year={2021},
pages={669-679},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010359506690679},
isbn={978-989-758-488-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 5: VISAPP
TI - Deep Emotion Recognition through Upper Body Movements and Facial Expression
SN - 978-989-758-488-6
AU - Ilyas C.
AU - Nunes R.
AU - Nasrollahi K.
AU - Rehm M.
AU - Moeslund T.
PY - 2021
SP - 669
EP - 679
DO - 10.5220/0010359506690679
PB - SciTePress