Spontaneous facial expression in unscripted social interactions can be measured automatically.

ABSTRACT: Methods to assess individual facial actions have potential to shed light on important behavioral phenomena ranging from emotion and social interaction to psychological disorders and health. However, manual coding of such actions is labor intensive and requires extensive training. To date, establishing reliable automated coding of unscripted facial actions has been a daunting challenge impeding development of psychological theories and applications requiring facial expression assessment. It is therefore essential that automated coding systems be developed with enough precision and robustness to ease the burden of manual coding in challenging data involving variation in participant gender, ethnicity, head pose, speech, and occlusion. We report a major advance in automated coding of spontaneo

SUBMITTER: Girard JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4461567 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature