Extracting subtle facial expression for emotional analysis

John R. Cowell; Aladdin Ayesh

doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398378

Extracting subtle facial expression for emotional analysis

John R. Cowell^*, Aladdin Ayesh

^*Corresponding author for this work

De Montfort University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

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Abstract

Humans convey emotions with subtle facial expressions. The interpretation of these expressions not only depends on that expression, but on how it developed. Exposing this development enables a better analysis of the ambiguity experienced when analyzing the underlying emotion. Subtle facial expressions can be objectively measured in terms of Action Units as defined in the Facial Action Coding System. This paper presents a facial expression language based on FACS which provides a continues stream of expressions for measuring the growth of expression. The development of the emotion surprise which requires two Action Units is used as a test case.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004
Pages	677-681
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398378
Publication status	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004 - The Hague, Netherlands Duration: 10 Oct 2004 → 13 Oct 2004

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Conference	2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2004
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	The Hague
Period	10/10/04 → 13/10/04

Keywords

Action Unit
AU
Facial Action Coding System
Facial expression
FACS

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