{"pk":27079,"title":"Towards Automated Classification of Emotional Facial Expressions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Emotional state influences nearly every aspect of human cog-nition. However, coding emotional state is a costly processthat relies on proprietary software or the subjective judgmentsof trained raters, highlighting the need for a reliable, automaticmethod of recognizing and labeling emotional expression. Wedemonstrate that machine learning methods can approach near-human levels for categorization of facial expression in natural-istic experiments. Our results show relative success of modelson highly controlled stimuli and relative failure on less con-trolled images, emphasizing the need for real-world data forapplication to real-world experiments. We then test the poten-tial of combining multiple freely available datasets to broadlycategorize faces that vary across age, race, gender and photo-graphic quality.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Classification"},{"word":"machine learning"},{"word":"computer vision"},{"word":"Support Vector Machines"},{"word":"emotion and cognition"},{"word":"facial recog-nition"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hg6h3f3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lewis","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Baker","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"Vanessa","middle_name":"","last_name":"LoBue","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"#N/A","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bonawitz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"#N/A","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shafto","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27079/galley/16715/download/"}]}