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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2014
The Regents of the University of California, La Jolla, CA (US);
The Research Foundation of State University of New York, Amherst, NY (US);
Marian Stewart Bartlett, San Diego, CA (US);
Gwen Littlewort-Ford, Solana, CA (US);
Javier Movellan, La Jolla, CA (US);
Ian Fasel, Tuscan, AZ (US);
Mark Frank, Amherst, NY (US);
The Regents Of The University Of California, Oakland, CA (US);
The Research Foundation of State University of New York, Amherst, NY (US);
Abstract
An automatic facial action coding system and method can include processing an image to identify a face in the image, to detect and align one or more facial features shown in the image, and to define one or more windows on the image. One or more distributions of pixels and color intensities can be quantified in each of the one or more windows to derive one or more two-dimensional intensity distributions of one or more colors within the window. The one or more two-dimensional intensity distributions can be processed to select image features appearing in the one or more windows and to classify one or more predefined facial actions on the face in the image. A facial action code score that includes a value indicating a relative amount of the predefined facial action occurring in the face in the image can be determined for the face in the image for each of the one or more predefined facial actions.