Structure Function Based Transform Features for Behavior-Oriented Social Media Image Classification

Social media has become an essential part of people to reflect their day to day activities including emotions, feelings, threatening and so on. This paper presents a new method for the automatic classification of behavior-oriented images like Bullying, Threatening, Neuroticism-Depression, Neuroticism-Sarcastic, Psychopath and Extraversion of a person from social media images. The proposed method first finds facial key points for extracting features based on a face detection algorithm. Then the proposed method labels face regions as foreground and other than face region as background to define context between foreground and background information. To extract context, the proposed method explores Structural Function based Transform (SFBT) features, which study variations on pixel values. To increase discriminating power of the context features, the proposed method performs clustering to integrate the strength of the features. The extracted features are then fed to Support Vector Machines (SVM) for classification. Experimental results on a dataset of six classes show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in terms of confusion matrix and classification rate.