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Transfer Learning for Action Unit Recognition

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018-07-20 v1

Abstract

This paper presents a classifier ensemble for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) based on models derived from transfer learning. The main experimentation work is conducted for facial action unit detection using feature extraction and fine-tuning convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Several classifiers for extracted CNN codes such as Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) are compared and evaluated. Multi-model ensembles are also used to further improve the performance. We have found that VGG-Face and ResNet are the relatively optimal pre-trained models for action unit recognition using feature extraction and the ensemble of VGG-Net variants and ResNet achieves the best result.

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@article{arxiv.1807.07556,
  title  = {Transfer Learning for Action Unit Recognition},
  author = {Yen Khye Lim and Zukang Liao and Stavros Petridis and Maja Pantic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07556},
  year   = {2018}
}

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