Deep generic features and SVM for facial expression recognition

Abstract

Motivated by the newly recent trend in pattern recognition - convolutional neural network (CNN), we introduce a new fusion method based on CNN and support vector machines (SVM) for facial expression recognition problem. Our study puts the deep generic features from CNN and SVM together which is more efficient than CNN only. We investigate our proposed method on Cohn-Kanade dataset and achieve 96.04% in accuracy rate which is better than other state-of-the-art methods.