Emotion Detection Algorithm Using Frontal Face Image

  • Kim, Moon-Hwan (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Joo, Young-Hoon (School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Kunsan National University) ;
  • Park, Jin-Bae (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 2005.06.02

Abstract

An emotion detection algorithm using frontal facial image is presented in this paper. The algorithm is composed of three main stages: image processing stage and facial feature extraction stage, and emotion detection stage. In image processing stage, the face region and facial component is extracted by using fuzzy color filter, virtual face model, and histogram analysis method. The features for emotion detection are extracted from facial component in facial feature extraction stage. In emotion detection stage, the fuzzy classifier is adopted to recognize emotion from extracted features. It is shown by experiment results that the proposed algorithm can detect emotion well.

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