Multi-conditional Latent Variable Model for Joint Facial Action Unit Detection
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Author(s)
Eleftheriadis, S
Rudovic, O
Pantic, M
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We propose a novel multi-conditional latent variable model for simultaneous facial feature fusion and detection of facial action units. In our approach we exploit the structure-discovery capabilities of generative models such as Gaussian processes, and the discriminative power of classifiers such as logistic function. This leads to superior performance compared to existing classifiers for the target task that exploit either the discriminative or generative property, but not both. The model learning is performed via an efficient, newly proposed Bayesian learning strategy based on Monte Carlo sampling. Consequently, the learned model is robust to data overfitting, regardless of the number of both input features and jointly estimated facial action units. Extensive qualitative and quantitative experimental evaluations are performed on three publicly available datasets (CK+, Shoulder-pain and DISFA). We show that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for the target task on (i) feature fusion, and (ii) multiple facial action unit detection.
Date Issued
2015-12-13
Date Acceptance
2015-08-29
Citation
Proceedings / IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2015, pp.3792-3800
ISSN
1550-5499
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
3792
End Page
3800
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings / IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
611153
645094
Source
International Conference on Computer Vision
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-12-07
Finish Date
2015-12-13
Coverage Spatial
Santiago, Chile