Adaptively Enhancing Facial Expression Crucial Regions via Local Non-Local Joint Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14045v2
• Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:13:16 GMT
• Title: Adaptively Enhancing Facial Expression Crucial Regions via Local Non-Local Joint Network
• Authors: Guanghui Shi, Shasha Mao, Shuiping Gou, Dandan Yan, Licheng Jiao, Lin Xiong
• Abstract summary: A local non-local joint network is proposed to adaptively light up the facial crucial regions in feature learning of Facial expression recognition. The proposed method achieves more competitive performance compared with several state-of-the art methods on five benchmark datasets.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Facial expression recognition (FER) is still one challenging research due to the small inter-class discrepancy in the facial expression data. In view of the significance of facial crucial regions for FER, many existing researches utilize the prior information from some annotated crucial points to improve the performance of FER. However, it is complicated and time-consuming to manually annotate facial crucial points, especially for vast wild expression images. Based on this, a local non-local joint network is proposed to adaptively light up the facial crucial regions in feature learning of FER in this paper. In the proposed method, two parts are constructed based on facial local and non-local information respectively, where an ensemble of multiple local networks are proposed to extract local features corresponding to multiple facial local regions and a non-local attention network is addressed to explore the significance of each local region. Especially, the attention weights obtained by the non-local network is fed into the local part to achieve the interactive feedback between the facial global and local information. Interestingly, the non-local weights corresponding to local regions are gradually updated and higher weights are given to more crucial regions. Moreover, U-Net is employed to extract the integrated features of deep semantic information and low hierarchical detail information of expression images. Finally, experimental results illustrate that the proposed method achieves more competitive performance compared with several state-of-the art methods on five benchmark datasets. Noticeably, the analyses of the non-local weights corresponding to local regions demonstrate that the proposed method can automatically enhance some crucial regions in the process of feature learning without any facial landmark information.

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