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Audiovisual Facial Action Unit Recognition Using Feature Level Fusion

Audiovisual Facial Action Unit Recognition Using Feature Level Fusion
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Author(s): Zibo Meng (University of South Carolina, USA), Shizhong Han (University of South Carolina, USA), Min Chen (University of Washington Bothell, USA)and Yan Tong (University of South Carolina, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 20
Source title: Computer Vision: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5204-8.ch024

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Abstract

Recognizing facial actions is challenging, especially when they are accompanied with speech. Instead of employing information solely from the visual channel, this work aims to exploit information from both visual and audio channels in recognizing speech-related facial action units (AUs). In this work, two feature-level fusion methods are proposed. The first method is based on a kind of human-crafted visual feature. The other method utilizes visual features learned by a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). For both methods, features are independently extracted from visual and audio channels and aligned to handle the difference in time scales and the time shift between the two signals. These temporally aligned features are integrated via feature-level fusion for AU recognition. Experimental results on a new audiovisual AU-coded dataset have demonstrated that both fusion methods outperform their visual counterparts in recognizing speech-related AUs. The improvement is more impressive with occlusions on the facial images, which would not affect the audio channel.

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