Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 14, 141501(2020)

Facial Expression Classification Based on Ensemble Convolutional Neural Network

Tao Zhou1, Xiaoqi Lü1,2,3、*, Guoyin Ren1, Yu Gu1,3, Ming Zhang1,4, and Jing Li1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Progressing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia 0 14010, China
  • 2School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 0 10051, China
  • 3School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • 4Information Science and Technology College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning 116026, China
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    Figures & Tables(16)
    Model structure of VGGNet-19GP
    Model structure of EnsembleNet
    Example images from the CK+ dataset
    Example images from the FER2013 dataset
    Schematic of the training set data enhancement
    Schematic of the test set data enhancement
    Result graphs of simple average experiment. Comparison of the average accuracy of EnsembleNet, ResNet-18, and VGGNet-19GP under (a) PublicTest and (b) PrivateTest with the increase of epoch
    Result graphs of weighted average.Fluctuations of EnsembleNet with the change of ResNet-18 weights under (a) PublicTest and (b) PrivateTest, and the comparison with ResNet-18 and VGGNet-19GP
    VGGNet-19GP, ResNet-18, and EnsembleNet accuracy curves on PublicTest dataset
    VGGNet-19GP, ResNet-18, and EnsembleNet accuracy curves on PrivateTest dataset
    VGGNet-19GP, ResNet-18, and EnsembleNet accuracy curves on CK+ dataset
    Confusion matrix of EnsembleNet on the FER2013 dataset. (a) PublicTest Confusion Matrix; (b) PrivateTest Confusion Matrix
    Confusion matrix of EnsembleNet on the CK+ dataset
    Examples of correct classification and misclassification of PrivateTest
    • Table 1. Average accuracy on the FER2013 and CK+ datasets%

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      Table 1. Average accuracy on the FER2013 and CK+ datasets%

      ModelFER2013CK+
      Public_Avg_AccPrivate_Avg_AccAvg_Acc
      VGGNet-19GP70.61671.84891.107
      ResNet-1871.32772.27192.845
      EnsembleNet71.69773.85497.611
    • Table 2. Comparison of proposed model with existing methods on the FER2013 and CK+datasets

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      Table 2. Comparison of proposed model with existing methods on the FER2013 and CK+datasets

      SourceMethodDataaugmentedDropoutAccuracy /%
      FER2013CK+
      Ref. [8]Pre-processing+5_Layer_CNN---97.75
      Ref. [9]Landmark+5_Layer_CNN---97.25
      Ref. [10]CSACNN--97.45
      Ref. [11]7_CNN---81.50
      Ref. [11]7_CNN-82.90
      Ref. [11]7_CNN84.42
      Ref. [11]7_CNN84.55
      Ref. [12]Cross-connect LeNet-5---83.74
      Ref. [13]Siamese network with multiple channels---92.06
      Ref. [14]Multi-resolution feature fusion---92.10
      Ref. [15]Local feature fusion---94.56
      Ref. [16]Parallel CNN-65.694.03
      Ref. [17]Ensemble CNNs+L2_Loss--71.16-
      Ref. [23]CNN+FACS+AU--72.198.62
      Ref. [24]11_Layer_CNN-65.3-
      Ref. [25]Fully-convolution neural network--66-
      Ref. [26]8_CNN(filters decreases with net depth)--65-
      ProposedVGGNet-19GP71.84891.107
      ProposedResNet-1872.27192.845
      ProposedEnsembleNet73.85497.611
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    Tao Zhou, Xiaoqi Lü, Guoyin Ren, Yu Gu, Ming Zhang, Jing Li. Facial Expression Classification Based on Ensemble Convolutional Neural Network[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(14): 141501

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Oct. 8, 2019

    Accepted: Nov. 26, 2019

    Published Online: Jul. 28, 2020

    The Author Email: Xiaoqi Lü (lxiaoqi@imut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.141501

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