Facial expression recognition using deep learning

Recognizing facial expressions is one of the fundamental computer vision applications. Many prior esearch studies have been conducted for more robust recognition performance. With the success of Vision Transformer (ViT) in many other areas, we found it remains challenging to apply it in the task of...

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Main Author: Wang, Xiao Yi
Other Authors: Yap Kim Hui
Format: Thesis-Master by Coursework
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178999
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description Recognizing facial expressions is one of the fundamental computer vision applications. Many prior esearch studies have been conducted for more robust recognition performance. With the success of Vision Transformer (ViT) in many other areas, we found it remains challenging to apply it in the task of facial expression recognition. It limits the development of this research area due to the issue that the existing dataset is insufficient for the requirement of training a robust Vision Transformer. In this dissertation, in order to train a high-performance Vision Transformer for the facial expression recognition problem, three existing public datasets are merged into a new standard dataset with unified samples, and the sample size under each label reaches 20,000 by using data augmentation and other methods. We also implement a Vision Transformer and it is trained on our augmented dataset. Under the same parameter setting, we compare ViT with the other four baseline models and demonstrate its superiority. The optimal ViT configuration parameters are obtained by analyzing and comparing the training statistics with different configurations on our dataset and the testing results in a noisy test set. In addition, a real-time facial expression recognition prototype using the web camera and Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) face detection module is implemented for real-world evaluation.
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spelling ntu-10356/1789992024-07-19T15:43:38Z Facial expression recognition using deep learning Wang, Xiao Yi Yap Kim Hui School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering EKHYap@ntu.edu.sg Computer and Information Science Deep learning Computer vision Recognizing facial expressions is one of the fundamental computer vision applications. Many prior esearch studies have been conducted for more robust recognition performance. With the success of Vision Transformer (ViT) in many other areas, we found it remains challenging to apply it in the task of facial expression recognition. It limits the development of this research area due to the issue that the existing dataset is insufficient for the requirement of training a robust Vision Transformer. In this dissertation, in order to train a high-performance Vision Transformer for the facial expression recognition problem, three existing public datasets are merged into a new standard dataset with unified samples, and the sample size under each label reaches 20,000 by using data augmentation and other methods. We also implement a Vision Transformer and it is trained on our augmented dataset. Under the same parameter setting, we compare ViT with the other four baseline models and demonstrate its superiority. The optimal ViT configuration parameters are obtained by analyzing and comparing the training statistics with different configurations on our dataset and the testing results in a noisy test set. In addition, a real-time facial expression recognition prototype using the web camera and Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) face detection module is implemented for real-world evaluation. Master's degree 2024-07-15T09:00:53Z 2024-07-15T09:00:53Z 2024 Thesis-Master by Coursework Wang, X. Y. (2024). Facial expression recognition using deep learning. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178999 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178999 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
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Deep learning
Computer vision
Wang, Xiao Yi
Facial expression recognition using deep learning
title Facial expression recognition using deep learning
title_full Facial expression recognition using deep learning
title_fullStr Facial expression recognition using deep learning
title_full_unstemmed Facial expression recognition using deep learning
title_short Facial expression recognition using deep learning
title_sort facial expression recognition using deep learning
topic Computer and Information Science
Deep learning
Computer vision
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