The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition

Recent research has shown improved performance by embedding the colour information in the process of facial expression recognition (FER). However, the RGB colour space may not always be the most desirable space for facial expression shown in face recognition. This paper addresses the problem of how...

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Main Authors: Xue, Mingliang, Liu, Wan-Quan, Li, Ling
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer Verlag 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10691
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Liu, Wan-Quan
Li, Ling
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Liu, Wan-Quan
Li, Ling
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description Recent research has shown improved performance by embedding the colour information in the process of facial expression recognition (FER). However, the RGB colour space may not always be the most desirable space for facial expression shown in face recognition. This paper addresses the problem of how to learn an optimum colour space for facial expression recognition based on the given training sample set. There are two typical learning colour spaces which have been used for face recognition. The uncorrelated colour space (UCS) decorrelates the three component images of RGB colour space using principal component analysis, and the discriminant colour space (DCS) creates three new component images by applying discriminant analysis. We will investigate these two colour spaces for facial expression recognition. First, colour face images are transformed into these colour spaces and represented by concatenating their component vectors. Secondly, facial expression recognition is achieved by utilizing Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD). We test these colour spaces on Oulu-CASIA NIR&VIS facial expression database and CurtinFaces database in three ways: person-independent, person-dependent and crossing image sources. The results reveal that the uncorrelated colour space is more effective than RGB space in colour information representation for facial expression recognition, but the discriminant colour space fails to bear comparison with RGB space, which is significantly different from the case of face recognition.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-106912017-09-13T14:56:20Z The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition Xue, Mingliang Liu, Wan-Quan Li, Ling Recent research has shown improved performance by embedding the colour information in the process of facial expression recognition (FER). However, the RGB colour space may not always be the most desirable space for facial expression shown in face recognition. This paper addresses the problem of how to learn an optimum colour space for facial expression recognition based on the given training sample set. There are two typical learning colour spaces which have been used for face recognition. The uncorrelated colour space (UCS) decorrelates the three component images of RGB colour space using principal component analysis, and the discriminant colour space (DCS) creates three new component images by applying discriminant analysis. We will investigate these two colour spaces for facial expression recognition. First, colour face images are transformed into these colour spaces and represented by concatenating their component vectors. Secondly, facial expression recognition is achieved by utilizing Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD). We test these colour spaces on Oulu-CASIA NIR&VIS facial expression database and CurtinFaces database in three ways: person-independent, person-dependent and crossing image sources. The results reveal that the uncorrelated colour space is more effective than RGB space in colour information representation for facial expression recognition, but the discriminant colour space fails to bear comparison with RGB space, which is significantly different from the case of face recognition. 2014 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10691 10.1007/978-3-662-43404-8_9 Springer Verlag restricted
spellingShingle Xue, Mingliang
Liu, Wan-Quan
Li, Ling
The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition
title The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition
title_full The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition
title_fullStr The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition
title_full_unstemmed The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition
title_short The Uncorrelated and Discriminant Colour Space for Facial Expression Recognition
title_sort uncorrelated and discriminant colour space for facial expression recognition
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10691