Abstract-This survey focuses on discrete expression classification and facial action unit recognition performed using 3D face data, possibly including a corresponding 2D texture image. Research trends to date are summarized and the limitations of current methods are discussed. The challenges towards the development of more accurate and automated 3D facial expression recognition methods are identified. We also call for standardized experimental protocols in order to draw fair and meaningful comparisons between different systems.
We present a Markov Random Field model for the analysis of lattices (e.g., images or 3D meshes) in terms of the discriminative information of their vertices. The proposed method provides a measure field that estimates the probability of each vertex being "discriminative" or "nondiscriminative" for a given classification task. To illustrate the applicability and generality of our framework, we use the estimated probabilities as feature scoring to define compact signatures for three different classification tasks: 1) 3D Face Recognition, 2) 3D Facial Expression Recognition, and 3) Ethnicity-based Subject Retrieval, obtaining very competitive results. The main contribution of this work lies in the development of a novel framework for feature selection in scenaria in which the most discriminative information is smoothly distributed along a lattice.
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