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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
May. 23, 2023
Central China Normal University, Hubei, CN;
Sannyuya Liu, Hubei, CN;
Zongkai Yang, Hubei, CN;
Xiaoliang Zhu, Hubei, CN;
Zhicheng Dai, Hubei, CN;
Liang Zhao, Hubei, CN;
CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY, Hubei, CN;
Abstract
Provided are a facial expression recognition method and system combined with an attention mechanism. The method comprises: detecting faces comprised in each video frame in a video sequence, and extracting corresponding facial ROIs, so as to obtain facial pictures in each video frame; aligning the facial pictures in each video frame on the basis of location information of facial feature points of the facial pictures; inputting the aligned facial pictures into a residual neural network, and extracting spatial features of facial expressions corresponding to the facial pictures; inputting the spatial features of the facial expressions into a hybrid attention module to acquire fused features of the facial expressions; inputting the fused features of the facial expressions into a gated recurrent unit, and extracting temporal features of the facial expressions; and inputting the temporal features of the facial expressions into a fully connected layer, and classifying and recognizing the facial expressions.