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Thermal Augmented Expression Recognition
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DOI：10.1109/TCYB.2017.2786309.png)
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Visible facial images provide geometric and appearance patterns of facial expressions and are sensitive to illumination changes. Thermal facial images record facial temperature distribution and are robust to light conditions. Therefore, expression recognition is enhanced by visible and thermal image fusion. In most cases, only visible images are available due to the widespread popularity of visible cameras and the high cost of thermal cameras. Thus, we propose a novel visible expression recognition method by using thermal infrared (IR) data as privileged information, which is only available during training. Specifically, we first learn a deep model for visible images and thermal images. Then we use the learned feature representations to train support vector machine (SVM) classifiers for expression classification. We jointly refine the deep models as well as the SVM classifiers for both thermal images and visible images by imposing the constraint that the outputs of the SVM classifiers from two views are similar. Thermal IR images during training are then exploited to construct better facial representations and expression classifiers from visible images. We extend the proposed thermal augmented expression recognition method for partially unpaired data, acknowledging that visible images and thermal images maybe not be recorded synchronously. Experimental result on the MAHNOB laughter database demonstrate that the proposed thermal augmented expression recognition method can effectively exploit thermal IR images' supplementary role for visible facial expression recognition during training to obtain better facial representations and a better visible expression classifier. The proposed thermal augmented expression recognition method achieves state-of-the-art expression recognition performance for both paired and unpaired facial images.
Keywords:
Deep models
facial expression recognition
privileged information
support vector machine
thermal images
visible images
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