Doubly sparse relevance vector machine for continuous facial behavior estimation
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Kaltwang, S
Todorovic, S
Pantic, M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Certain inner feelings and physiological states like pain are subjective states that cannot be directly measured, but can be estimated from spontaneous facial expressions. Since they are typically characterized by subtle movements of facial parts, analysis of the facial details is required. To this end, we formulate a new regression method for continuous estimation of the intensity of facial behavior interpretation, called Doubly Sparse Relevance Vector Machine (DSRVM). DSRVM enforces double sparsity by jointly selecting the most relevant training examples (a.k.a. relevance vectors) and the most important kernels associated with facial parts relevant for interpretation of observed facial expressions. This advances prior work on multi-kernel learning, where sparsity of relevant kernels is typically ignored. Empirical evaluation on challenging Shoulder Pain videos, and the benchmark DISFA and SEMAINE datasets demonstrate that DSRVM outperforms competing approaches with a multi-fold reduction of running times in training and testing.
Date Issued
2015-11-19
Date Acceptance
2015-11-19
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2015, 38 (9), pp.1748-1761
ISSN
0162-8828
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
1748
End Page
1761
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume
38
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
645094
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
0801 Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing
0806 Information Systems
0906 Electrical And Electronic Engineering
Publication Status
Published