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A Hybrid Automatic Facial Expression Recognition Based on Convolutional Neuronal Networks and Support Vector Machines Techniques

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Human Centred Intelligent Systems

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The efficiency of facial emotion recognition (FER) systems is essential for good human–machine interaction. But the FER task is linked to several methods that influence such Systems’ performance. In our work, we study two architectures of the CNN network: VGG13 and VGG19. To examine their performances using different databases: Ck+, Fer2013, Fer+, and Fer++. In addition, we developed a new version of Fer+ to show the impact of a database with a better quality of annotations. Then we proposed a hybrid model that allows us to merge the CNN and SVM and obtain a new model that slightly enhances the performances. Our choice of combining these two architectures is motivated by the success of SVM in classification and the success of CNN in features extraction. The proposed hybrid approach is tested on CK+ Database and achieved 98.76% accuracy.

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Naim, S., Chaibi, H., Abdessamad, E.R., Saadane, R., Chehri, A. (2022). A Hybrid Automatic Facial Expression Recognition Based on Convolutional Neuronal Networks and Support Vector Machines Techniques. In: Zimmermann, A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Human Centred Intelligent Systems. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 310. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3455-1_3

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