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Recognizing Spontaneous Facial Expressions using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Söderberg, Erik LU and Jönsson, Andreas LU (2018) In Master's Theses in Mathematical Sciences FMAM05 20181
Mathematics (Faculty of Engineering)
Abstract
Emotion recognition is a relatively new research area within image analysis where machine learning models learn to interpret facial expressions. In this thesis paper the authors have investigated how close to human accuracy selected deep convolutional neural network models can reach on the Emotion Recognition Problem, what the purpose of such an application might be and what compromises can be made when balancing computational power and classification performance.

A number of deep convolutional neural network models of varying depth were trained on mainly two datasets; FER2013 and AffectNet. Results showed that the best model managed to reach 74.6 % accuracy on a three label testset, where a human performed 80.7 %. The conclusion was... (More)
Emotion recognition is a relatively new research area within image analysis where machine learning models learn to interpret facial expressions. In this thesis paper the authors have investigated how close to human accuracy selected deep convolutional neural network models can reach on the Emotion Recognition Problem, what the purpose of such an application might be and what compromises can be made when balancing computational power and classification performance.

A number of deep convolutional neural network models of varying depth were trained on mainly two datasets; FER2013 and AffectNet. Results showed that the best model managed to reach 74.6 % accuracy on a three label testset, where a human performed 80.7 %. The conclusion was made that for the most interesting use cases, label binning facial expressions into three classes positive, neutral and negative might be favorable. Lastly, as for trade-off when balancing accuracy and computational power, deeper networks perform insignificantly better than the more shallow ones, while the latter dramatically reduce the computational effort. (Less)
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author
Söderberg, Erik LU and Jönsson, Andreas LU
supervisor
organization
course
FMAM05 20181
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
facial expression recognition, deep neural network, machine learning, image analysis
publication/series
Master's Theses in Mathematical Sciences
report number
LUTFMA-3348-2018
ISSN
1404-6342
other publication id
2018:E25
language
English
id
8943330
date added to LUP
2018-05-31 14:30:04
date last changed
2018-05-31 14:30:04
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  abstract     = {{Emotion recognition is a relatively new research area within image analysis where machine learning models learn to interpret facial expressions. In this thesis paper the authors have investigated how close to human accuracy selected deep convolutional neural network models can reach on the Emotion Recognition Problem, what the purpose of such an application might be and what compromises can be made when balancing computational power and classification performance.

A number of deep convolutional neural network models of varying depth were trained on mainly two datasets; FER2013 and AffectNet. Results showed that the best model managed to reach 74.6 % accuracy on a three label testset, where a human performed 80.7 %. The conclusion was made that for the most interesting use cases, label binning facial expressions into three classes positive, neutral and negative might be favorable. Lastly, as for trade-off when balancing accuracy and computational power, deeper networks perform insignificantly better than the more shallow ones, while the latter dramatically reduce the computational effort.}},
  author       = {{Söderberg, Erik and Jönsson, Andreas}},
  issn         = {{1404-6342}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{Master's Theses in Mathematical Sciences}},
  title        = {{Recognizing Spontaneous Facial Expressions using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}