METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING AN EMOTION OF AN INDIVIDUAL BASED ON FACIAL ACTION UNITS

An apparatus and method are provided for recognizing an emotion of an individual based on Action Units. The method includes receiving an input AU string including one or more AUs that represents a facial expression of an individual from an AU detector; matching the input AU string with each of a plu...

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Hauptverfasser: KANNAN, Hariprasad, ANAND, Balasubramanian, VELUSAMY, Sudha, SHARMA, Anshul
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Zusammenfassung:An apparatus and method are provided for recognizing an emotion of an individual based on Action Units. The method includes receiving an input AU string including one or more AUs that represents a facial expression of an individual from an AU detector; matching the input AU string with each of a plurality of AU strings, wherein each of the plurality of AU strings includes a set of highly discriminative AUs, each representing an emotion; identifying an AU string from the plurality of AU strings that best matches the input AU string; and outputting an emotion label corresponding to the best matching AU string that indicates the emotion of the individual.