Facial Emotional Expression Recognition with Soft Computing Techniques

The facial expression recognition (FER) is one of the biosignal-based recognition techniques which attract a lot of attention recently. To deal with its complex characteristics effectively, we adopt the soft computing techniques (SCT) such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithm and/or rough set technique. In this paper, we overview the state-of-the-art reports on FER in view of SCT, and introduce some interesting works done by our group on the SCT-based facial emotional expression recognition. Specifically, 1) fuzzy observer-based approach, 2) personalized FER system based on fuzzy neural networks, and 3) Gabor wavelet neural networks are briefly discussed