A novel facial expression recognition based on the curevlet features

Curvelet transform has been recently proved to be a powerful tool for multi-resolution analysis on images. In this paper we propose a new approach for facial expression recognition based on features extracted via curvelet transform. First curvelet transform is presented and its advantages in image analysis are described. Then the coefficients of curvelet in selected scales and angles are used as features for image analysis. Consequently the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminate Analysis (LDA) are used to reduce and optimize the curvelet features. Finally we use the nearest neighbor classifier to recognize the facial expressions based on these features. The experimental results on JAFFE and Cohn Kanade two benchmark databases show that the proposed approach outperforms the PCA and LDA techniques on the original image pixel values as well as its counterparts with the wavelet features

Extraction of Face Features Using Various Techniques

This thesis aims at devising a novel method of feature extraction of face images which proves to be faster and more accurate than the existing methods defined by wavelet, curvelet and ridgelet transforms. DOST method of extracting features from face images keeps into account every minute detail of the face image i.e both spatial and frequency based features. The application of LDA method onto the DOST features in order to reduce the dimensionality of the method further helps in making the process of feature extraction faster and hence reduces the time complexity of the feature extraction method. The matching is done by using different similarity measures such as euclidean distance. Results from different methods are evaluated and compared to present the effectiveness of this new method for feature extraction

A new approach to face recognition using Curvelet Transform

Multiresolution tools have been profusely employed in face recognition. Wavelet Transform is the best known among these multiresolution tools and is widely used for identification of human faces. Of late, following the success of wavelets a number of new multiresolution tools have been developed. Curvelet Transform is a recent addition to that list. It has better directional ability and effective curved edge representation capability. These two properties make curvelet transform a powerful weapon for extracting edge information from facial images. Our work aims at exploring the possibilities of curvelet transform for feature extraction from human faces in order to introduce a new alternative approach towards face recognition

Face recognition based on curvelets, invariant moments features and SVM

Recent studies highlighted on face recognition methods. In this paper, a new algorithm is proposed for face recognition by combining Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCvT) and Invariant Moments with Support vector machine (SVM), which improves rate of face recognition in various situations. The reason of using this approach depends on two things. first, Curvelet transform which is a multi-resolution method, that can efficiently represent image edge discontinuities; Second, the Invariant Moments analysis which is a statistical method that meets with the translation, rotation and scale invariance in the image. Furthermore, SVM is employed to classify the face image based on the extracted features. This process is applied on each of ORL and Yale databases to evaluate the performance of the suggested method. Experimentally, the proposed method results show that our system can compose efficient and reasonable face recognition feature, and obtain useful recognition accuracy, which is able to face and side-face states detection of persons to decrease fault rate of production

Facial emotion recognition using min-max similarity classifier

Recognition of human emotions from the imaging templates is useful in a wide variety of human-computer interaction and intelligent systems applications. However, the automatic recognition of facial expressions using image template matching techniques suffer from the natural variability with facial features and recording conditions. In spite of the progress achieved in facial emotion recognition in recent years, the effective and computationally simple feature selection and classification technique for emotion recognition is still an open problem. In this paper, we propose an efficient and straightforward facial emotion recognition algorithm to reduce the problem of inter-class pixel mismatch during classification. The proposed method includes the application of pixel normalization to remove intensity offsets followed-up with a Min-Max metric in a nearest neighbor classifier that is capable of suppressing feature outliers. The results indicate an improvement of recognition performance from 92.85% to 98.57% for the proposed Min-Max classification method when tested on JAFFE database. The proposed emotion recognition technique outperforms the existing template matching methods