Franzoni, V.; Biondi, G.; Perri, D.; Gervasi, O. Enhancing Mouth-Based Emotion Recognition Using Transfer Learning. Sensors2020, 20, 5222.
Franzoni, V.; Biondi, G.; Perri, D.; Gervasi, O. Enhancing Mouth-Based Emotion Recognition Using Transfer Learning. Sensors 2020, 20, 5222.
Franzoni, V.; Biondi, G.; Perri, D.; Gervasi, O. Enhancing Mouth-Based Emotion Recognition Using Transfer Learning. Sensors2020, 20, 5222.
Franzoni, V.; Biondi, G.; Perri, D.; Gervasi, O. Enhancing Mouth-Based Emotion Recognition Using Transfer Learning. Sensors 2020, 20, 5222.
Abstract
The paper concludes the first research on mouth-based Emotion Recognition (ER), adopting a Transfer Learning (TL) approach. Transfer Learning results paramount for mouth-based emotion ER, because a few data sets are available, and most of them include emotional expressions simulated by actors, instead of adopting a real-world categorization. Using TL we can use fewer training data than training a whole network from scratch, thus more efficiently fine-tuning the network with emotional data and improving the convolutional neural network accuracy in the desired domain. The proposed approach aims at improving the Emotion Recognition dynamically, taking into account not only new scenarios but also modified situations with respect to the initial training phase, because the image of the mouth can be available even when the whole face is visible only in an unfavourable perspective.
Typical applications include automated supervision of bedridden critical patients in an healthcare management environment, or portable applications supporting disabled users having difficulties in seeing or recognizing facial emotions. This work takes advantage from previous preliminary works on mouth-based emotion recognition using CNN deep-learning, and has the further benefit of testing and comparing a set of networks on large data sets for face-based emotion recognition well known in literature. The final result is not directly comparable with works on full-face ER, but valorizes the significance of mouth in emotion recognition, obtaining consistent performances on the visual emotion recognition domain.
Keywords
Transfer Learning; Convolutional Neural Networks; Emotion Recognition
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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