Low-cost facial expression on mobile platform

Chang Chun Chu, Duan Yu Chen, Jun-Wei Hsieh

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Abstract

Facial expressions of a person have been developed widely in many applications. Most of them use many complex algorithms, so they need many computing resources for conduction. In order to perform facial expression on resource-limited mobile platform, we determine to develop a system which is low complexity, high efficiency, real-time execution and no prior-training needed. In this paper, lip's features are applied to classify the human emotion. First, we detect human faces by Haar-like features. Second, the region of mouth is determined by the horizontal projection on the location of face. Third, we determine the corners of lips by using the vertical projection to find the lip boundary. The features extracted are the distance of the mouth's contour and the difference of gray values between upper lip and the half of mouth's height. Finally, the analysis method that we adopt is feature-based approach. We attempt to recognize four expressions, neutral, smile, surprise and sadness. The whole system can be conducted in real time about twenty frames per second. The experiment results show that on average the recognition rate is about 85% and thus reveals its efficacy for real world environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2015 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2015
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages586-590
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467372213
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Nov 2015
Event14th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2015 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 12 Jul 201515 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Volume2
ISSN (Print)2160-133X
ISSN (Electronic)2160-1348

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period12/07/1515/07/15

Keywords

  • Expression recognition
  • Face expression
  • Mobile platform

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