Kernel Conditional Ordinal Random Fields for Temporal Segmentation of Facial Action Units

Ognjen Rudovic¹, Vladimir Pavlovic², and Maja Pantic^{1, 3}

¹Computing Dept., Imperial College London, UK
o.rudovic@imperial.ac.uk
m.pantic@imperial.ac.uk

²Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA
vladimir@cs.rutgers.ed

³EEMCS, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Abstract. We consider the problem of automated recognition of temporal segments (neutral, onset, apex and offset) of Facial Action Units. To this end, we propose the Laplacian-regularized Kernel Conditional Ordinal Random Field model. In contrast to standard modeling approaches to recognition of AUs’ temporal segments, which treat each segment as an independent class, the proposed model takes into account ordinal relations between the segments. The experimental results evidence the effectiveness of such an approach.

Keywords: Action units, histogram intersection kernel, ordinal regression, conditional random field, kernel locality preserving projections

LNCS 7584, p. 260 ff.

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