Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 58, Issue 6, 610005(2021)

Facial Expression Recognition by Merging Multilayer Features of Lightweight Convolutional Networks

Shen Hao1,2,3, Meng Qinghao1,2,3, and Liu Yinbo1,2,3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Institute of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 3Tianjin Key Laboratory of Process Detection and Control, Tianjin 300072, China
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    Structure of ms_model_v1 model
    Bottleneck_M structure
    Process of feature selection module
    Confusion matrix of RAF-DB dataset using the proposed method
    Confusion matrix of AffectNet dataset using the proposed method
    • Table 1. Parameters of the CNN

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      Table 1. Parameters of the CNN

      Layer namecstOutput size
      Conv2D 1 (3×3)16256×56×16
      Bottleneck_M1161156×56×16
      Bottleneck_M2242528×28×24
      Bottleneck_M3241528×28×24
      Bottleneck_M3_1321528×28×32
      Bottleneck_M3_2321528×28×32
      Feature selection module 132
      Bottleneck_M4322514×14×32
      Bottleneck_M5321514×14×32
      Feature selection module 232
      Bottleneck_M6401514×14×40
      Bottleneck_M7401514×14×40
      Feature selection module 340
      Bottleneck_M8401514×14×40
      Bottleneck_M948257×7×48
      Bottleneck_M1064157×7×64
      Conv2D 2 (1×1)6417×7×64
      Global average pooling64
      Concat168
      Reshape 11×1×168
      Dropout1×1×168
      Conv2D 3 (1×1)k1×1×k
      Softmax1×1×k
      Reshape 2k
    • Table 2. Number of categories in AffectNet dataset after random screening

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      Table 2. Number of categories in AffectNet dataset after random screening

      ClassNeutralHappySadSurpriseFearDisgustAngryContemptTotal
      Train set5978597959665963637838035979375043796
      Test set5005005005005005005005004000
    • Table 3. Performance of different models

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      Table 3. Performance of different models

      Model nameNumber of parametersModel size/MbitAcc in RAF-DB/%Acc in AffectNet/%
      base_model_R1951592.983.6456.93
      base_model_M1951592.984.2357.30
      ms_model_fully329930340.285.4557.37
      ms_model_v1_R1939273.084.8157.43
      ms_model_v1_M1939273.085.4957.70
    • Table 4. Accuracy of different methods in RAF-DB and AffectNet datasets

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      Table 4. Accuracy of different methods in RAF-DB and AffectNet datasets

      MethodAcc in RAF-DB/%Acc in AffectNet/%
      Boosting-POOF[24]73.19
      VGG16[25]80.9651.11
      DLP-CNN[22]84.13
      pACNN[26]83.0555.33
      gACNN[26]85.0758.78
      E2-CapsNet[27]85.24
      ms_model_v1_M85.4957.70
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    Shen Hao, Meng Qinghao, Liu Yinbo. Facial Expression Recognition by Merging Multilayer Features of Lightweight Convolutional Networks[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(6): 610005

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Jun. 30, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 11, 2021

    The Author Email: Yinbo Liu (liuyinbo@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202158.0610005

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