Automatic Recognition of Facial Expressions and Human Emotions

PUBLISHED:
ASCI'97 Proceedings of the third annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, Heijen, The Netherlands, June 2-4, 1997

KEYWORDS:
Expert System, Automatic tracing, Reasoning, Real-time, Parallelism

ABSTRACT:
Human Emotion Recognition Clips Utilised Expert System - HERCULES forms part of an Automated System for Non-verbal Communication. It was designed to analyse a shown facial expression, based on psychological study called FACS, and to interpret it in terms of six basic emotions. HERCULES now accepts manually made measurements on a full-face photograph and returns a description of the shown facial expression, quantitative measurement of it, its interpretation in terms of the six basic emotions and quantitative measurement of that that emotional interpretation. Although the current version of HERCULES operates with a manual input, its kernel is built to accept facial measurements made automatically and processed in parallel. However, a full automated real-time version of the system as well as dealing with inaccurate, redundand and faulty input is still under development.