Title
AffectNet: A Database for Facial Expression, Valence, and Arousal Computing in the Wild.
Abstract
Automated affective computing in the wild setting is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing annotated databases of facial expressions in the wild are small and mostly cover discrete emotions (aka the categorical model). There are very limited annotated facial databases for affective computing in the continuous dimensional model (e.g., valence and arousal). To meet this need, we collected, annotated, and prepared for public distribution a new database of facial emotions in the wild (called AffectNet). AffectNet contains more than 1,000,000 facial images from the Internet by querying three major search engines using 1,250 emotion related keywords in six different languages. About half of the retrieved images were manually annotated for the presence of seven discrete facial expressions and the intensity of valence and arousal. AffectNet is by far the largest database of facial expression, valence, and arousal in the wild enabling research in automated facial expression recognition in two different emotion models. Two baseline deep neural networks are used to classify images in the categorical model and predict the intensity of valence and arousal. Various evaluation metrics show that our deep neural network baselines can perform better than conventional machine learning methods and off-the-shelf facial expression recognition systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2740923
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Databases,Computational modeling,Face,Face recognition,Affective computing,Magnetic heads
Social psychology,Arousal,Facial recognition system,Facial expression recognition,Psychology,Dimensional modeling,Facial expression,Affective computing,Artificial neural network,Database,AKA
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1708.03985
1
1949-3045
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
58
1.37
55
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
ali mollahosseini11665.94
Behzad Hassani2802.70
Mohammad H. Mahoor386155.59