AAM Derived Face Representations for Robust Facial Action Recognition

In this paper, we present results on experiments employing Active Appearance Model (AAM) derived facial representations, for the task of facial action recognition. Experimental results demonstrate the benefit of AAM-derived representations on a spontaneous AU database containing “real-world” variation. Additionally, we explore a number of normalization methods for these representations which increase facial action recognition performance.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: FGR
• Authors: Simon Lucey, Iain Matthews, Changbo Hu, Zara Ambadar, Fernando De la Torre, Jeffrey F. Cohn
• Keywords: Active Appearance Model, Facial Action Recognition, Facial Representations, FGR 2006