Facial expression recognition based on local region specific features and support vector machines

Facial expressions are one of the most powerful, natural and immediate means for human being to communicate their emotions and intensions. Recognition of facial expression has many applications including human-computer interaction, cognitive science, human emotion analysis, personality development etc. In this paper, we propose a new method for the recognition of facial expressions from single image frame that uses combination of appearance and geometric features with support vector machines classification. In general, appearance features for the recognition of facial expressions are computed by dividing face region into regular grid (holistic representation). But, in this paper we extracted region specific appearance features by dividing the whole face region into domain specific local regions. Geometric features are also extracted from corresponding domain specific regions. In addition, important local regions are determined by using incremental search approach which results in the reduction of feature dimension and improvement in recognition accuracy. The results of facial expressions recognition using features from domain specific regions are also compared with the results obtained using holistic representation. The performance of the proposed facial expression recognition system has been validated on publicly available extended Cohn-Kanade (CK+) facial expression data sets.     

Face recognition: features versus templates

Two new algorithms for computer recognition of human faces, one based on the computation of a set of geometrical features, such as nose width and length, mouth position, and chin shape, and the second based on almost-gray-level template matching, are presented. The results obtained for the testing sets show about 90% correct recognition using geometrical features and perfect recognition using template matching     

Compact and adaptive spatial pyramids for scene recognition

Most successful approaches on scene recognition tend to efficiently combine global image features with spatial local appearance and shape cues. On the other hand, less attention has been devoted for studying spatial texture features within scenes. Our method is based on the insight that scenes can be seen as a composition of micro-texture patterns. This paper analyzes the role of texture along with its spatial layout for scene recognition. However, one main drawback of the resulting spatial representation is its huge dimensionality. Hence, we propose a technique that addresses this problem by presenting a compact Spatial Pyramid (SP) representation. The basis of our compact representation, namely, Compact Adaptive Spatial Pyramid (CASP) consists of a two-stages compression strategy. This strategy is based on the Agglomerative Information Bottleneck (AIB) theory for (i) compressing the least informative SP features, and, (ii) automatically learning the most appropriate shape for each category. Our method exceeds the state-of-the-art results on several challenging scene recognition data sets.     

Independent shape component-based human activity recognition via Hidden Markov Model

In proactive computing, human activity recognition from image sequences is an active research area. In this paper, a novel human activity recognition method is proposed, which utilizes Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for activity shape information extraction from image sequences and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for recognition. Various human activities are represented by shape feature vectors from the sequence of activity shape images via ICA. Based on these features, each HMM is trained and activity recognition is achieved by the trained HMMs of different activities. Our recognition performance has been compared to the conventional method where Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is typically used to derive activity shape features. Our results show that superior recognition is achieved with the proposed method especially for activities (e.g., skipping) that cannot be easily recognized by the conventional method. Furthermore, by employing Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) on IC features, the recognition results further improved significantly in the recognition performance.     

形状的全尺度可视化表示与识别

目的 视觉目标的形状特征表示和识别是图像领域中的重要问题。在实际应用中,视角、形变、遮挡和噪声等干扰因素造成识别精度较低,且大数据场景需要算法具有较高的学习效率。针对这些问题,本文提出一种全尺度可视化形状表示方法。方法 在尺度空间的所有尺度上对形状轮廓提取形状的不变量特征,获得形状的全尺度特征。将获得的全部特征紧凑地表示为单幅彩色图像,得到形状特征的可视化表示。将表示形状特征的彩色图像输入双路卷积网络模型,完成形状分类和检索任务。结果 通过对原始形状加入旋转、遮挡和噪声等不同干扰的定性实验,验证了本文方法具有旋转和缩放不变性,以及对铰接变换、遮挡和噪声等干扰的鲁棒性。在通用数据集上进行形状分类和形状检索的定量实验,所得准确率在不同数据集上均超过对比算法。在MPEG-7数据集上精度达到99.57%,对比算法的最好结果为98.84%。在铰接和射影变换数据集上皆达到100%的识别精度,而对比算法的最好结果分别为89.75%和95%。结论 本文提出的全尺度可视化形状表示方法,通过一幅彩色图像紧凑地表达了全部形状信息。通过卷积模型既学习了轮廓点间的形状特征关系,又学习了不同尺度间的形状特征关系。本文方法在视角变化、局部遮挡、铰接变形和噪声等干扰下能保持较高的识别正确率,可应用于图像采集干扰较多以及红外或深度图像的目标识别,并适用于大数据场景下的识别任务。     

A new scheme for planar shape recognition using wavelets

This paper presents a novel approach to planar shape recognition using wavelets. There are two stages, called representation stage and recognition stage, in the proposed method. In the representation stage, in order to extract the features of a shape, a set of wavelet basis are investigated, and wavelet decomposition strategy from the orientation function of the boundary curve of the shape are then performed. The representation of a shape is achieved with a collection of multiscale feature set (MFS) which consists of the scale parameters of wavelet function, the positions where the dominant feature take place, a similarity measure, etc. In the recognition stage, the test shape is compared with various model shapes stored in a database by computing the distance of their MFSs, and the one with the minimum distance is chosen as the correct matching of the test shape. Experimental results obtained with the proposed scheme are encouraging which demonstrates the effectiveness and robustness of the approach.     

一种基于多分类器融合的人体运动行为识别模型

为了提高基于智能设备的人体日常行为识别的准确率,针对不同智能设备内置加速度传感器获取的三轴加速度信息,提出了一种基于多分类器融合的行为识别MCF(Multiple Classifier Fusion)模型。针对5种日常行为(静止、散步、跑步、上楼及下楼),优选出与每种行为相关度高的特征集,用于训练对每种行为识别效果最佳的5个基分类器,并采用一个融合器对5个基分类器的输出进行融合处理,得到最终行为识别结果。该模型对这5种行为的平均识别准确率和可信度分别达到96.84%和97.41%,能有效进行用户行为识别。     

Data fusion and multiple classifier systems for human activity detection and health monitoring: Review and open research directions

Activity detection and classification using different sensor modalities have emerged as revolutionary technology for real-time and autonomous monitoring in behaviour analysis, ambient assisted living, activity of daily living (ADL), elderly care, rehabilitations, entertainments and surveillance in smart home environments. Wearable devices, smart-phones and ambient environments devices are equipped with variety of sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometer, heart rate, pressure and wearable camera for activity detection and monitoring. These sensors are pre-processed and different feature sets such as time domain, frequency domain, wavelet transform are extracted and transform using machine learning algorithm for human activity classification and monitoring. Recently, deep learning algorithms for automatic feature representation have also been proposed to lessen the burden of reliance on handcrafted features and to increase performance accuracy. Initially, one set of sensor data, features or classifiers were used for activity recognition applications. However, there are new trends on the implementation of fusion strategies to combine sensors data, features and classifiers to provide diversity, offer higher generalization, and tackle challenging issues. For instances, combination of inertial sensors provide mechanism to differentiate activity of similar patterns and accurate posture identification while other multimodal sensor data are used for energy expenditure estimations, object localizations in smart homes and health status monitoring. Hence, the focus of this review is to provide in-depth and comprehensive analysis of data fusion and multiple classifier systems techniques for human activity recognition with emphasis on mobile and wearable devices. First, data fusion methods and modalities were presented and also feature fusion, including deep learning fusion for human activity recognition were critically analysed, and their applications, strengths and issues were identified. Furthermore, the review presents different multiple classifier system design and fusion methods that were recently proposed in literature. Finally, open research problems that require further research and improvements are identified and discussed.