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TESTING AND RESULTS<br />

The following steps have been taken into account for training the models for the <strong>facial</strong><br />

expression recognition system:<br />

- Obtaining the (Cohn-Kanade) database for building the system’s knowledge<br />

- Conversion <strong>of</strong> data base images from ‘png’ to ‘bmp’ format, 24 bits/pixel<br />

- Increasing the quality <strong>of</strong> the images through some enhancement procedures (light,<br />

removing strips, applying filters, etc.)<br />

- Extracting some Facial Characteristic Points (FCPs) by using a special tool (FCP<br />

Management Application)<br />

- Computing the value <strong>of</strong> some parameters according to a given model. Applying a<br />

discretization procedure by using a special application (Parameter Discretization<br />

Application)<br />

- Determining the <strong>facial</strong> expression for each <strong>of</strong> the samples in the database by<br />

analyzing the sequence <strong>of</strong> Action Units (AUs). The tool used to process the files<br />

in the database was Facial Expression Assignement Application.<br />

- Using different kind <strong>of</strong> reasoning mechanisms for emotion recognition. The<br />

training step took into account the data provided from the previous steps.<br />

Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) and back-propagation Artificial Neuronal<br />

Networks (ANN) were the main modalities for recognition.<br />

- Principal Component Analysis technique was used as an enhancement procedure<br />

for the emotion recognition.<br />

The steps that imply testing the recognition models are:<br />

- Capture the video signal containing the <strong>facial</strong> expression<br />

- Detecting the Facial Characteristic Points automatically<br />

- Computing the value <strong>of</strong> the model parameters<br />

- Using the parameter values for emotion detection

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