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AffectiveNet: Affective-Motion Feature Learningfor Micro Expression Recognition

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Abstract

Micro-expressions are hard to spot due to fleeting and involuntary moments of facial muscles. Interpretation of micro emotions from video clips is a challenging task. In this paper we propose an affective-motion imaging that cumulates rapid and short-lived variational information of micro expressions into a single response. Moreover, we have proposed an AffectiveNet:affective-motion feature learning network that can perceive subtle changes and learns the most discriminative dynamic features to describe the emotion classes. The AffectiveNet holds two blocks: MICRoFeat and MFL block. MICRoFeat block conserves the scale-invariant features, which allows network to capture both coarse and tiny edge variations. While MFL block learns micro-level dynamic variations from two different intermediate convolutional layers. Effectiveness of the proposed network is tested over four datasets by using two experimental setups: person independent (PI) and cross dataset (CD) validation. The experimental results of the proposed network outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches with significant margin for MER approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2104.07569,
  title  = {AffectiveNet: Affective-Motion Feature Learningfor Micro Expression Recognition},
  author = {Monu Verma and Santosh Kumar Vipparthi and Girdhari Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07569},
  year   = {2021}
}
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