Learning Active Facial Patches for Expression Analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new idea to analyze facial expression by exploring some common and specific information among different expressions. Inspired by the observation that only a few facial parts are active in expression disclosure (e.g., around mouth, eye), we try to discover the common and specific patches which are important to discriminate all the expressions and only a particular expression, respectively. A two-stage multi-task sparse learning (MTSL) framework is proposed to efficiently locate those discriminative patches. In the first stage MTSL, expression recognition tasks, each of which aims to find dominant patches for each expression, are combined to located common patches. Second, two related tasks, facial expression recognition and face verification tasks, are coupled to learn specific facial patches for individual expression. Extensive experiments validate the existence and significance of common and specific patches. Utilizing these learned patches, we achieve superior performances on expression recognition compared to the state-of-the-arts.

Cite

Text

Zhong et al. "Learning Active Facial Patches for Expression Analysis." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2012. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2012.6247974

Markdown

[Zhong et al. "Learning Active Facial Patches for Expression Analysis." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2012.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2012/zhong2012cvpr-learning/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.2012.6247974

BibTeX

@inproceedings{zhong2012cvpr-learning,
  title     = {{Learning Active Facial Patches for Expression Analysis}},
  author    = {Zhong, Lin and Liu, Qingshan and Yang, Peng and Liu, Bo and Huang, Junzhou and Metaxas, Dimitris N.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {2012},
  pages     = {2562-2569},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.2012.6247974},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2012/zhong2012cvpr-learning/}
}