Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for facial expression recognition

Abstract

Facial expression recognition is a very active research topic due to its potential applications in the many fields such as human-robot interaction, human-machine interfaces, driving safety, and health-care. Despite of the significant improvements, facial expression recognition is still a challenging problem that wait for more and more accurate algorithms. This article presents a new model that is capable of recognizing facial expression by using deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The CNN model is generated by using Caffe in Digits environment. Moreover, it is trained and tested on NVIDIA Tegra TX1 embedded development platform including a 250 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) CUDA cores and Quadcore ARM Cortex A57 processor. The proposed model is applied to address the facial expression problem on the publicly available two expression databases, the JAFFE database and the Cohn-Kanade database.