Are you really smiling at me? Spontaneous versus posed enjoyment smiles

Hamdi Dibeklioǧlu*, Albert Ali Salah, Theo Gevers

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Abstract

Smiling is an indispensable element of nonverbal social interaction. Besides, automatic distinction between spontaneous and posed expressions is important for visual analysis of social signals. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method to distinguish between spontaneous and posed enjoyment smiles by using the dynamics of eyelid, cheek, and lip corner movements. The discriminative power of these movements, and the effect of different fusion levels are investigated on multiple databases. Our results improve the state-of-the-art. We also introduce the largest spontaneous/posed enjoyment smile database collected to date, and report new empirical and conceptual findings on smile dynamics. The collected database consists of 1240 samples of 400 subjects. Moreover, it has the unique property of having an age range from 8 to 76 years. Large scale experiments on the new database indicate that eyelid dynamics are highly relevant for smile classification, and there are age-related differences in smile dynamics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision, ECCV 2012 - 12th European Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
Pages525-538
Number of pages14
EditionPART 3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event12th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2012 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 7 Oct 201213 Oct 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 3
Volume7574 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period7/10/1213/10/12

Keywords

  • affective computing
  • Face analysis
  • smile classification

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