Abstract
Background: A number of disciplines, including security, healthcare, and human-machine
interactions, have presented and used techniques for emotion recognition based on facial expressions.
Objective: To increase computer prediction, researchers are advancing the methods for deciphering
code and extracting facial emotions.
Methods: The contamination of the image with noise, which alters the features of the images and ultimately
impacts the accuracy of the system, is one of the major issues in this sector. Thus, noise
should be eliminated or diminished. The wavelet transform approach is used in this study to denoise
the images before categorization. The classification accuracies for original images are also obtained to
analyze the effect of denoising on the classification accuracy of the facial expression images.
Results and Conclusion: Three machine learning approaches, support vector machine, k-nearest
neighbor, and naive bayes, are utilized to classify the emotions in this instance. The feature employed
is the histogram of directional gradients of images. The classification results are obtained and the effect
of denoising on the classification accuracy of the facial expression images is analyzed. Also, our
best-obtained result for the wavelet transform method is compared with other wavelet transform-based
facial emotion recognition techniques. And our result is found to be promising.
Keywords:
Wavelet transform, thresholding, decomposition, symlets, coiflets, daubechies, wavelet.
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