Title
A main directional maximal difference analysis for spotting facial movements from long-term videos.
Abstract
There is an increasing interests in micro-expression researches. Spotting micro-expressions in long-term videos is very important, not only for providing clues for lie detection, but also for reducing the labor required to collect micro-expression data. However, little progress has been made in spotting micro-expressions. In this paper, we propose a Main Directional Maximal Difference (MDMD) Analysis for micro-expression spotting. MDMD uses the magnitude maximal difference in the main direction of optical flow features to spot facial movements, including micro-expressions. Using block structured facial regions, MDMD obtains more accurate features of movement of expressions for automatically spotting micro-expressions and macro-expressions from videos. This method involves both the temporal and spatial locations of face movements. Evaluations using the CAS(ME)2 database containing micro-expressions and macro-expressions show that MDMD is more robust than some state-of-the-art algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.neucom.2016.12.034
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Micro-expression recognition,Macro-expression,Micro-expression spotting,Optical flow
Computer vision,Expression (mathematics),Pattern recognition,Computer science,Lie detection,Artificial intelligence,Optical flow,Spotting
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
230
C
0925-2312
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.46
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sujing Wang169037.65
Shuhang Wu2100.46
Xingsheng Qian3100.46
Jingxiu Li4100.46
Xiaolan Fu578660.72