"In the Blink of an Eye: Event-Based Emotion Recognition"
ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference Proceedings, Article 28, August 2023
Abstract
We introduce a wearable single-eye emotion recognition device and a real-time approach to recognizing emotions from partial observations of an emotion that is robust to changes in lighting conditions. At the heart of our method is a bio-inspired event-based camera setup and a newly designed lightweight Spiking Eye Emotion Network (SEEN). Compared to conventional cameras, event-based cameras offer a higher dynamic range (up to 140 dB vs. 80 dB) and a higher temporal resolution (in the order of μ s vs. 10s of ms). Thus, the captured events can encode rich temporal cues under challenging lighting conditions. However, these events lack texture information, posing problems in decoding temporal information effectively. SEEN tackles this issue from two different perspectives. First, we adopt convolutional spiking layers to take advantage of the spiking neural network’s ability to decode pertinent temporal information. Second, SEEN learns to extract essential spatial cues from corresponding intensity frames and leverages a novel weight-copy scheme to convey spatial attention to the convolutional spiking layers during training and inference. We extensively validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on a specially collected Single-eye Event-based Emotion (SEE) dataset. To the best of our knowledge, our method is the first eye-based emotion recognition method that leverages event-based cameras and spiking neural networks.
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ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference Proceedings, Article 28, August 2023
AbstractWe introduce a wearable single-eye emotion recognition device and a real-time approach to recognizing emotions from partial observations of an emotion that is robust to changes in lighting conditions. At the heart of our method is a bio-inspired event-based camera setup and a newly designed lightweight Spiking Eye Emotion Network (SEEN). Compared to conventional cameras, event-based cameras offer a higher dynamic range (up to 140 dB vs. 80 dB) and a higher temporal resolution (in the order of μ s vs. 10s of ms). Thus, the captured events can encode rich temporal cues under challenging lighting conditions. However, these events lack texture information, posing problems in decoding temporal information effectively. SEEN tackles this issue from two different perspectives. First, we adopt convolutional spiking layers to take advantage of the spiking neural network’s ability to decode pertinent temporal information. Second, SEEN learns to extract essential spatial cues from corresponding intensity frames and leverages a novel weight-copy scheme to convey spatial attention to the convolutional spiking layers during training and inference. We extensively validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on a specially collected Single-eye Event-based Emotion (SEE) dataset. To the best of our knowledge, our method is the first eye-based emotion recognition method that leverages event-based cameras and spiking neural networks.
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@conference{Zhang:2023:ITB,
author = {Zhang, Haiwei and Zhang, Jiqing and Dong, Bo and Peers, Pieter and Wu, Wenwei and Wei, Xiaopeng and Heide, Felix and Yang, Xin},
title = {In the Blink of an Eye: Event-Based Emotion Recognition},
month = {August},
year = {2023},
articleno = {28},
booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference Proceedings},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3588432.3591511},
}
author = {Zhang, Haiwei and Zhang, Jiqing and Dong, Bo and Peers, Pieter and Wu, Wenwei and Wei, Xiaopeng and Heide, Felix and Yang, Xin},
title = {In the Blink of an Eye: Event-Based Emotion Recognition},
month = {August},
year = {2023},
articleno = {28},
booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference Proceedings},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3588432.3591511},
}