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Record W4396717279 · doi:10.3934/electreng.2024010

Robust CNN for facial emotion recognition and real-time GUI

2024· article· en· W4396717279 on OpenAlexaff
Faisal Ghaffar

Bibliographic record

VenueAIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicFace and Expression Recognition
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceFacial expressionEmotion recognitionSpeech recognitionPattern recognition (psychology)Artificial intelligence

Abstract

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Computer vision is witnessing a surge of interest in machines accurately recognizing and interpreting human emotions through facial expression analysis. However, variations in image properties such as brightness, contrast, and resolution make it harder for models to predict the underlying emotion accurately. Utilizing a robust architecture of a convolutional neural network (CNN), we designed an efficacious framework for facial emotion recognition that predicts emotions and assigns corresponding probabilities to each fundamental human emotion. Each image is processed with various pre-processing steps before inputting it to the CNN to enhance the visibility and clarity of facial features, enabling the CNN to learn more effectively from the data. As CNNs entail a large amount of data for training, we used a data augmentation technique that helps to enhance the model's generalization capabilities, enabling it to effectively handle previously unseen data. To train the model, we joined the datasets, namely JAFFE and KDEF. We allocated 90% of the data for training, reserving the remaining 10% for testing purposes. The results of the CCN framework demonstrated a peak accuracy of 78.1%, which was achieved with the joint dataset. This accuracy indicated the model's capability to recognize facial emotions with a promising level of performance. Additionally, we developed an application with a graphical user interface for real-time facial emotion classification. This application allows users to classify emotions from still images and live video feeds, making it practical and user-friendly. The real-time application further demonstrates the system's practicality and potential for various real-world applications involving facial emotion analysis.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.206
Teacher spread0.191 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2024
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