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IMPROVING MICRO-EXPRESSION RECOGNITION WITH AN ENHANCED DESCRIPTOR COMBINING GW-LBP, TGMH, AND WT

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P. Surekha Orcid logo ,
P. Surekha

PhD Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation , Vaddeswaram, , India

P. Vidya Sagar Orcid logo ,
P. Vidya Sagar

Associate Professor, Department of CSE, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation , Vaddeswaram , India

G. Ramesh Orcid logo
G. Ramesh

Associate Professor, Department of CSE, GRIET , Hyderabad , India

Abstract

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary facial expressions, short-lived (usually between 1/5 and 1/25 seconds), and important in the application of security, psychological tests, and forensics. The MEs are however difficult to identify because it occur quickly and also involve little movement of the muscles. The paper presents an Enhanced Micro-Expression Descriptor which incorporates Gabor Wavelet-based Local Binary Patterns (GW-LBP), Temporal Gradient Magnitude Histograms (TGMH), and Wavelet Transform (WT) to enhance ME recognition, by overcoming the weaknesses of traditional methods in illumination sensitivity and poor computing power. The algorithm involves the use of GW-LBP to extract spatial texture, TGMH to capture changes in temporal motion, and WT to analyze frequencies on a multiscale basis. This is achieved by classifying the fused feature set with an RBF kernel Support Vector Machine (SVM), which is optimized by down-sampling to a size manageable by resources (4096 dimensions) to provide a resource-efficient, real-time solution with application in edge computing. Benchmark dataset experimental results prove that the proposed method is better than the existing techniques with a recognition accuracy of 85.9%. This is a major boost compared to conventional procedures such as the LBP-TOP (67.5%) and CNN-based models (78.3%). Also, the Wavelet Transform option exploited the highest score in entropy (0.93), which implies that it can be highly used in real-time behavioral analysis, emotion detection, and security surveillance. The findings affirm that the hybrid approach, which incorporates spatial, temporal, and frequency characteristics, has a better performance than the existing ME recognition models.

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