Title :
Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fusion of Multiple Gabor Features
Author :
Liu, Weifeng ; Wang, Zengfu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China
Abstract :
In order to accomplish subject-independent facial expression recognition task, a multiple Gabor features based facial expression recognition method is presented in this paper. Different channels of Gabor filters have different contributions on the facial expression recognition and reasonable combination of these features can improve the performance of a facial expression recognition system. NN based data fusion method is designed for facial expression recognition in this paper. Experimental results show that the facial expression recognition rate can be improved by using multiple channel features and neural network fusion
Keywords :
Gabor filters; emotion recognition; face recognition; neural nets; sensor fusion; Gabor filter; facial expression recognition; neural net based data fusion; Face recognition; Feature extraction; Frequency; Gabor filters; Hidden Markov models; Image analysis; Image recognition; Kernel; Neural networks; Principal component analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 2006. ICPR 2006. 18th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2521-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.2006.538