Close menu

SURE

Sunderland Repository records the research produced by the University of Sunderland including practice-based research and theses.

Intelligent Facial Expression Recognition Using Particle Swarm Optimization Based Feature Selection

Robson, Adam and Zhang, Li (2018) Intelligent Facial Expression Recognition Using Particle Swarm Optimization Based Feature Selection. 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI).

Item Type: Article

Abstract

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has become a popular method of feature selection in classification problems, due to its powerful search capability and computational simplicity. Classification problems, such as facial emotion recognition, often involve data sets containing high volumes of features, not all of which are useful for classification. Redundant and irrelevant features have the potential to negatively impact the performance and accuracy of facial emotion recognition systems. The feature selection process identifies the most relevant features to achieve improved classification performance. While the use of PSO as a feature selection method in facial emotion recognition systems has seen some successes, it is still susceptible to the issue of premature convergence. This work presents seven PSO variants which mitigate against the premature convergence problem through the incorporation of three random probability distributions (Cauchy, Gaussian and Lévy). At each iteration of the proposed PSO models, probability distributions are used to increase search diversity and reduce the number of redundant features used for classification. The seven PSO variants presented in this study have demonstrated positive results when tested on real world data sets, outperforming the standard PSO model and other related work within the field.

[img]
Preview
PDF
ssci_formatted_final_draft.pdf - Accepted Version

Download (447kB) | Preview

More Information

Uncontrolled Keywords: Particle Swarm Optimization, classification, facial expression recognition, feature selection
Depositing User: Adam Robson

Identifiers

Item ID: 16085
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/16085

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Adam Robson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2752-3381
ORCID for Li Zhang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8156-0717

Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 16 May 2023 16:00
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2023 08:01

Contributors

Author: Adam Robson ORCID iD
Author: Li Zhang ORCID iD

University Divisions

Faculty of Technology > School of Computer Science

Subjects

Computing > Data Science
Computing > Artificial Intelligence
Computing

Actions (login required)

View Item (Repository Staff Only) View Item (Repository Staff Only)