Off-TANet: A Lightweight Neural Micro-expression Recognizer with Optical Flow Features and Integrated Attention Mechanism

  • Jiahao Zhang
  • , Feng Liu*
  • , Aimin Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Micro-expression recognition is a video sentiment classification task with extremely small sample size. The transience and spatial locality of micro-expressions bring difficulties to constructing large micro-expression databases and designing micro-expression recognition algorithms. To reach the balance between classification accuracy and model complexity in this domain, we propose a lightweight neural micro-expression recognizer, Off-TANet, which is based on apex-onset optical flow features. The neural network contains a simple yet powerful triplet attention mechanism, and the powerfulness of this design could be interpreted in 2 aspects, FACS AU and matrix sparseness. The model evaluation is conducted with a LOSO cross-validation strategy on a combined database including 3 mainstream micro-expression databases. With obviously fewer total parameters (59,403), the results of the experiment indicate that the model achieves an average recall of 0.7315 and an average F1-score of 0.7242, exceeding other major architectures in this domain. A series of ablation experiments are also conducted to ensure the validity of our model design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPRICAI 2021
Subtitle of host publicationTrends in Artificial Intelligence - 18th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDuc Nghia Pham, Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Guido Governatori, Fenrong Liu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages266-279
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783030891879
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event18th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 8 Nov 202112 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13031 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/11/2112/11/21

Keywords

  • Attention module
  • Computational affection
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Micro-expression recognition
  • Optical flow features
  • Self-attention mechanism

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