Facial Emotion Recognition from Kinect Data – An Appraisal of Kinect Face Tracking Library

Tanwi Mallick, Palash Goyal, Partha Pratim Das, Arun Kumar Majumdar

2016

Abstract

Facial expression classification and emotion recognition from gray-scale or colour images or videos have been extensively explored over the last two decades. In this paper we address the emotion recognition problem using Kinect 1.0 data and the Kinect Face Tracking Library (KFTL). A generative approach based on facial muscle movements is used to classify emotions. We detect various Action Units (AUs) of the face from the feature points extracted by KFTL and then recognize emotions by Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) based on the detected AUs. We use six emotions, namely, Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Surprise and Neutral for our work and appraise the strengths and weaknesses of KFTL in terms of feature extraction, AU computations, and emotion detection. We compare our work with earlier studies on emotion recognition from Kinect 1.0 data.

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in Harvard Style

Mallick T., Goyal P., Das P. and Majumdar A. (2016). Facial Emotion Recognition from Kinect Data – An Appraisal of Kinect Face Tracking Library . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 525-532. DOI: 10.5220/0005713405250532

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp16,
author={Tanwi Mallick and Palash Goyal and Partha Pratim Das and Arun Kumar Majumdar},
title={Facial Emotion Recognition from Kinect Data – An Appraisal of Kinect Face Tracking Library},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={525-532},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005713405250532},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - Facial Emotion Recognition from Kinect Data – An Appraisal of Kinect Face Tracking Library
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Mallick T.
AU - Goyal P.
AU - Das P.
AU - Majumdar A.
PY - 2016
SP - 525
EP - 532
DO - 10.5220/0005713405250532