A Facial Expression Recognition Model Based on Texture and Shape Features

Abstract

With the development of computer vision, facial expression recognition has become a research hotspot. To further improve the accuracy of facial expression recognition, this paper probes deep into image segmentation, feature extraction, and facial expression classification. Firstly, the convolution neural network (CNN) was adopted to accurately separate the salient regions from the face image. Next, the Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) model was improved to enhance the ability of texture features to represent image information, and a novel feature extraction algorithm called specific angle abundance entropy (SAAE) was designed to improve the representation ability of shape features. After that, the texture features were combined with shape features, and trained and classified by the support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Finally, the proposed method was compared with common methods of facial expression recognition on a standard facial expression database. The results show that our method can greatly improve the accuracy of facial expression recognition.