Recognition of mixed facial expressions by neural network

Deals with a neural network method for the machine recognition of mixed facial expressions by decomposing mixed facial expression into 2 or 3 components of 6 basic ones. The authors obtain the facial images, which show mixed facial expressions, from video tape recorded facial images and from the information of facial expressions in terms of the (x,y) coordinates of facial characteristic points. Then the position information of facial image is generated for 19 clients, and is used for the neural network training and recognition test. The recognition test is done by inputting the facial information, not being used in training the neural network, to the trained neural network. The recognition results obtained by the neural network are compared with those by humans. The neural network method is found to give a rather high agreement rate of about 70% compared with those obtained by humans.<<ETX>>