Title
On pain assessment from facial videos using spatio-temporal local descriptors
Abstract
Automatically recognizing pain from spontaneous facial expression is of increased attention, since it can provide for a direct and relatively objective indication to pain experience. Until now, most of the existing works have focused on analyzing pain from individual images or video-frames, hence discarding the spatio-temporal information that can be useful in the continuous assessment of pain. In this context, this paper investigates and quantifies for the first time the role of the spatio-temporal information in pain assessment by comparing the performance of several baseline local descriptors used in their traditional spatial form against their spatio-temporal counterparts that take into account the video dynamics. For this purpose, we perform extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets. Our results indicate that using spatio-temporal information to classify video-sequences consistently shows superior performance when compared against the one obtained using only static information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/IPTA.2016.7820930
2016 Sixth International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Automatic pain assessment,facial expression,spatio-temporal features,LBP
Computer vision,Continuous assessment,Pattern recognition,Maximum likelihood detection,Pain assessment,Computer science,Support vector machine,Feature extraction,Facial expression,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2154-512X
978-1-4673-8911-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
12
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruijing Yang110.35
Shujun Tong210.35
Miguel Bordallo López3677.54
Elhocine Boutellaa4588.13
Jinye Peng528440.93
Xiaoyi Feng622938.15
Abdenour Hadid73305146.00