Robust facial expression recognition using Gabor feature and Bayesian discriminating classifier

Automatic facial expression recognition is important for effective Human computer interaction (HCI) as well as autistic children for communication. In this paper, we propose emotion recognition using Gabor feature and simple Bayesian discriminating classifier based on principal component analysis (PCA) for emotion recognition. The multi class classification strategic has been applied based on highest value of log likelihood after training different emotions class. Facial expression images from JAFFE database have been used for training as well as testing. Very high accuracy (96.73 %) of emotion recognition has been obtained with proposed method.

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