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LOMo: Latent Ordinal Model for Facial Analysis in Videos
We study the problem of facial analysis in videos. We propose a novel weakly
supervised learning method that models the video event (expression, pain etc.)
as a sequence of automatically mined, discriminative sub-events (eg. onset and
offset phase for smile, brow lower and cheek raise for pain). The proposed
model is inspired by the recent works on Multiple Instance Learning and latent
SVM/HCRF- it extends such frameworks to model the ordinal or temporal aspect in
the videos, approximately. We obtain consistent improvements over relevant
competitive baselines on four challenging and publicly available video based
facial analysis datasets for prediction of expression, clinical pain and intent
in dyadic conversations. In combination with complimentary features, we report
state-of-the-art results on these datasets.Comment: 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
(CVPR
Discriminatively Trained Latent Ordinal Model for Video Classification
We study the problem of video classification for facial analysis and human
action recognition. We propose a novel weakly supervised learning method that
models the video as a sequence of automatically mined, discriminative
sub-events (eg. onset and offset phase for "smile", running and jumping for
"highjump"). The proposed model is inspired by the recent works on Multiple
Instance Learning and latent SVM/HCRF -- it extends such frameworks to model
the ordinal aspect in the videos, approximately. We obtain consistent
improvements over relevant competitive baselines on four challenging and
publicly available video based facial analysis datasets for prediction of
expression, clinical pain and intent in dyadic conversations and on three
challenging human action datasets. We also validate the method with qualitative
results and show that they largely support the intuitions behind the method.Comment: Paper accepted in IEEE TPAMI. arXiv admin note: substantial text
overlap with arXiv:1604.0150
Personalized Automatic Estimation of Self-reported Pain Intensity from Facial Expressions
Pain is a personal, subjective experience that is commonly evaluated through
visual analog scales (VAS). While this is often convenient and useful,
automatic pain detection systems can reduce pain score acquisition efforts in
large-scale studies by estimating it directly from the participants' facial
expressions. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage learning approach for
VAS estimation: first, our algorithm employs Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
to automatically estimate Prkachin and Solomon Pain Intensity (PSPI) levels
from face images. The estimated scores are then fed into the personalized
Hidden Conditional Random Fields (HCRFs), used to estimate the VAS, provided by
each person. Personalization of the model is performed using a newly introduced
facial expressiveness score, unique for each person. To the best of our
knowledge, this is the first approach to automatically estimate VAS from face
images. We show the benefits of the proposed personalized over traditional
non-personalized approach on a benchmark dataset for pain analysis from face
images.Comment: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, The 1st
International Workshop on Deep Affective Learning and Context Modelin
Learning Temporal Alignment Uncertainty for Efficient Event Detection
In this paper we tackle the problem of efficient video event detection. We
argue that linear detection functions should be preferred in this regard due to
their scalability and efficiency during estimation and evaluation. A popular
approach in this regard is to represent a sequence using a bag of words (BOW)
representation due to its: (i) fixed dimensionality irrespective of the
sequence length, and (ii) its ability to compactly model the statistics in the
sequence. A drawback to the BOW representation, however, is the intrinsic
destruction of the temporal ordering information. In this paper we propose a
new representation that leverages the uncertainty in relative temporal
alignments between pairs of sequences while not destroying temporal ordering.
Our representation, like BOW, is of a fixed dimensionality making it easily
integrated with a linear detection function. Extensive experiments on CK+,
6DMG, and UvA-NEMO databases show significant performance improvements across
both isolated and continuous event detection tasks.Comment: Appeared in DICTA 2015, 8 page
Proposing a hybrid approach for emotion classification using audio and video data
Emotion recognition has been a research topic in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) during recent years. Computers have become an inseparable part of human life. Users need human-like interaction to better communicate with computers. Many researchers have
become interested in emotion recognition and classification using different sources. A hybrid
approach of audio and text has been recently introduced. All such approaches have been done to raise the accuracy and appropriateness of emotion classification. In this study, a hybrid approach of audio and video has been applied for emotion recognition. The innovation of this
approach is selecting the characteristics of audio and video and their features as a unique specification for classification. In this research, the SVM method has been used for classifying the data in the SAVEE database. The experimental results show the maximum classification
accuracy for audio data is 91.63% while by applying the hybrid approach the accuracy achieved is 99.26%
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