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Face registration is a major and critical step for face analysis. Existing facial activity recognition systems often employ coarse face alignment based on a few fiducial points such as eyes and extract features from equal-sized grid. Such extracted features are susceptible to variations in face pose, facial deformation, and person-specific geometry. In this work, we propose a novel face registration method named facial grid transformation to improve feature extraction for recognizing facial Action Units (AUs). Based on the transformed grid, novel grid edge features are developed to capture local facial motions related to AUs. Extensive experiments on two wellknown AU-coded databases have demonstrated that the proposed method yields significant improvements over the methods based on equal-sized grid on both posed and more importantly, spontaneous facial displays. Furthermore, the proposed method also outperforms the state-of-the-art methods using either coarse alignment or mesh-based face registration.
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Identical Twins as a Facial Similarity Benchmark for Human Facial Recognition
- Award ID(s):
- 1650474
- PAR ID:
- 10328339
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG)
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- 1 to 5
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/BIOSIG52210.2021.9548299
