Emotion recognition: A step ahead of traditional approaches

Abstract

Emotion recognition is an intriguing issue these days. It affects essential applications in numerous regions for example surveillance, defense, financial services etc. Determining a particular expression from face images effectively is a crucial venture. In this paper, we have demonstrated a novel approach to recognize emotions displayed in video sequences. The authors have considered seven basic emotions measuring factors: anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise and neutral. These factors are constantly encountered in our day to day life. The focus of this paper is towards contemplates a combination of extended biogeography based optimization algorithm, support vector machines and local binary patterns to obtain the best possible results.