Title
Regularizing Face Verification Nets For Pain Intensity Regression
Abstract
Limited labeled data are available for the research of estimating facial expression intensities. For instance, the ability to train deep networks for automated pain assessment is limited by small datasets with labels of patient-reported pain intensities. Fortunately, fine-tuning from a data-extensive pre- trained domain, such as face verification, can alleviate this problem. In this paper, we propose a network that fine-tunes a state-of-the-art face verification network using a regularized regression loss and additional data with expression labels. In this way, the expression intensity regression task can benefit from the rich feature representations trained on a huge amount of data for face verification. The proposed regularized deep regressor is applied to estimate the pain expression intensity and verified on the widely-used UNBC-McMaster Shoulder Pain dataset, achieving the state-of-the-art performance. A weighted evaluation metric is also proposed to address the imbalance issue of different pain intensities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/icip.2017.8296449
2017 24TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
fine-tuning, CNN, regularizer, regression
Face verification,Pattern recognition,Regression,Pain assessment,Computer science,Facial expression,Artificial intelligence,Labeled data,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-4880
4
0.43
References 
Authors
10
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feng Wang116110.05
Xiang Xiang282.53
Chang Liu3571117.41
T.D. Tran4967.67
Austin Reiter516413.02
Hager Gregory D61946159.37
Harry Quon741.44
Jian Cheng840.77
Alan L. Yuille9277.33