Facial Expressions Recognition Based on Cognition and Mapped Binary Patterns

Abstract-In this paper, a new expression recognition approach is presented based on cognition and mapped binary patterns. At first, the approach is based on the LBP operator to extract the facial contours. Secondly, the establishment of pseudo 3D model is used to segment face area into six facial expression sub-regions. In this context, the sub-regions and the global facial expression images use the mapped LBP method for feature extraction, and then use two classifications which are the support vector machine and softmax with two kinds of emotion classification models the basic emotion model and the circumplex emotion model. At last, we perform a comparative experiment on the expansion of the Cohn-Kanade (CK +) facial expression data set and the test data sets collected from ten volunteers. The experimental results show that the method can effectively remove the confounding factors in the image. And the result of using the circumplex emotion model is obviously better than the traditional emotional model. By referring to relevant studies of human cognition, we verifed that eyes and mouth express more emotion.