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SmileNet: Registration-Free Smiling Face Detection in the Wild

Accepted version
Peer-reviewed

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Conference Object

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Authors

Jang, Y 
Patras, I 

Abstract

We present a novel smiling face detection framework called SmileNet for detecting faces and recognising smiles in the wild. SmileNet uses a Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCNN) to detect multiple smiling faces in a given image of varying resolution. Our contributions are three-fold: 1) SmileNet is the first smiling face detection network that does not require pre-processing such as face detection and registration in advance to generate a normalised (cropped and aligned) input image; 2) the proposed SmileNet is a simple and single FCNN architecture simultaneously performing face detection and smile recognition, which are conventionally treated as separate consecutive pipelines; and 3) SmileNet ensures real-time processing speed (21.15 FPS) even when detecting multiple smiling faces in a given image (300x300). Experimental results show that SmileNet can deliver state-of-the-art performance (95.76%), even under occlusions, and variances of pose, scale, and illumination.

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Keywords

46 Information and Computing Sciences, 40 Engineering, 4603 Computer Vision and Multimedia Computation

Journal Title

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Conference Name

ICCVW 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop

Journal ISSN

2473-9936

Volume Title

Publisher

IEEE
Sponsorship
Technology Strategy Board (102547)
This work is supported by the Technology Strategy Board / Innovate UK project Sensing Feeling (project no. 102547).