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Automatic facial expression recognition is the kernel part of emotional information processing. This paper dedicates to develop an automatic facial expression recognition approach based on a novel support vector machine tree, which performs feature selection at each internal node, to improve recognition accuracy and robustness. After the Pseudo-Zernike moment features were extracted, they were used to train a support vector machine tree for automatic recognition. The structure of a support vector machine enables the model to divide the facial recognition problem into sub-problems according to the teacher signals, so that it can solve the sub-problems in decreased complexity in different tree levels. In the training phase, those sub-samples assigned to two internal sibling nodes perform decreasing confusion cross, thus, the generalization ability for recognition of facial expression is enhanced. The compared results on Cohn-Kanade facial expression database also show that the proposed approach appeared higher recognition accuracy and robustness than other approaches.
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Xu, Q., Zhang, P., Yang, L., Pei, W., He, Z. (2007). A Facial Expression Recognition Approach Based on Novel Support Vector Machine Tree. In: Liu, D., Fei, S., Hou, Z., Zhang, H., Sun, C. (eds) Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2007. ISNN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4493. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72395-0_48
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