Facial emotion recognition using emotional neural network and hybrid of fuzzy c-means and genetic algorithm

摘要

Facial emotion recognition (FER) is a critical task for both human-human (HHI) and human-computer interactions (HCl). In this paper, a brain-inspired neural basis computational model of FER is proposed based on emotional neural networks (ENN), fuzzy c-means (FCM) and genetic algorithms (GA). The proposed model can be applied in both HHI and HCI applications. In HHI, it can be used for improving communication skills, and in HCI it can be used in various treatment processes e.g. anxiety treatment, cancer radiation treatment and remote children/elderlies monitoring systems. The proposed model consists of main modules of emotional brain which recognize the facial emotions. In the experimental studies, the proposed model is examined on children's facial sad recognition as a case study. The results show that our model is valid and can be applied for various FER tasks.