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Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fine-Tuned Channel–Spatial Attention Transformer
Facial expressions help individuals convey their emotions. In recent years, thanks to the development of computer vision technology, facial expression recognition (FER) has become a research hotspot and made remarkable progress. However, human faces in real-world environments are affected by various...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10422316/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37571582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23156799 |
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author | Yao, Huang Yang, Xiaomeng Chen, Di Wang, Zhao Tian, Yuan |
author_facet | Yao, Huang Yang, Xiaomeng Chen, Di Wang, Zhao Tian, Yuan |
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description | Facial expressions help individuals convey their emotions. In recent years, thanks to the development of computer vision technology, facial expression recognition (FER) has become a research hotspot and made remarkable progress. However, human faces in real-world environments are affected by various unfavorable factors, such as facial occlusion and head pose changes, which are seldom encountered in controlled laboratory settings. These factors often lead to a reduction in expression recognition accuracy. Inspired by the recent success of transformers in many computer vision tasks, we propose a model called the fine-tuned channel–spatial attention transformer (FT-CSAT) to improve the accuracy of recognition of FER in the wild. FT-CSAT consists of two crucial components: channel–spatial attention module and fine-tuning module. In the channel–spatial attention module, the feature map is input into the channel attention module and the spatial attention module sequentially. The final output feature map will effectively incorporate both channel information and spatial information. Consequently, the network becomes adept at focusing on relevant and meaningful features associated with facial expressions. To further improve the model’s performance while controlling the number of excessive parameters, we employ a fine-tuning method. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our FT-CSAT outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets: RAF-DB and FERPlus. The achieved recognition accuracy is 88.61% and 89.26%, respectively. Furthermore, to evaluate the robustness of FT-CSAT in the case of facial occlusion and head pose changes, we take tests on Occlusion-RAF-DB and Pose-RAF-DB data sets, and the results also show that the superior recognition performance of the proposed method under such conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-104223162023-08-13 Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fine-Tuned Channel–Spatial Attention Transformer Yao, Huang Yang, Xiaomeng Chen, Di Wang, Zhao Tian, Yuan Sensors (Basel) Article Facial expressions help individuals convey their emotions. In recent years, thanks to the development of computer vision technology, facial expression recognition (FER) has become a research hotspot and made remarkable progress. However, human faces in real-world environments are affected by various unfavorable factors, such as facial occlusion and head pose changes, which are seldom encountered in controlled laboratory settings. These factors often lead to a reduction in expression recognition accuracy. Inspired by the recent success of transformers in many computer vision tasks, we propose a model called the fine-tuned channel–spatial attention transformer (FT-CSAT) to improve the accuracy of recognition of FER in the wild. FT-CSAT consists of two crucial components: channel–spatial attention module and fine-tuning module. In the channel–spatial attention module, the feature map is input into the channel attention module and the spatial attention module sequentially. The final output feature map will effectively incorporate both channel information and spatial information. Consequently, the network becomes adept at focusing on relevant and meaningful features associated with facial expressions. To further improve the model’s performance while controlling the number of excessive parameters, we employ a fine-tuning method. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our FT-CSAT outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets: RAF-DB and FERPlus. The achieved recognition accuracy is 88.61% and 89.26%, respectively. Furthermore, to evaluate the robustness of FT-CSAT in the case of facial occlusion and head pose changes, we take tests on Occlusion-RAF-DB and Pose-RAF-DB data sets, and the results also show that the superior recognition performance of the proposed method under such conditions. MDPI 2023-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10422316/ /pubmed/37571582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23156799 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yao, Huang Yang, Xiaomeng Chen, Di Wang, Zhao Tian, Yuan Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fine-Tuned Channel–Spatial Attention Transformer |
title | Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fine-Tuned Channel–Spatial Attention Transformer |
title_full | Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fine-Tuned Channel–Spatial Attention Transformer |
title_fullStr | Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fine-Tuned Channel–Spatial Attention Transformer |
title_full_unstemmed | Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fine-Tuned Channel–Spatial Attention Transformer |
title_short | Facial Expression Recognition Based on Fine-Tuned Channel–Spatial Attention Transformer |
title_sort | facial expression recognition based on fine-tuned channel–spatial attention transformer |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10422316/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37571582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23156799 |
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