Final Project : CS376 - Machine Learning

Human facial expressions reveal a lot of crucial, hidden, information, such as their emotional states and intentions. Recognizing the emotions of a person will help us understand the wishes and behavior of people. Considering the importance of interaction between humans and computers, it becomes necessary to develop a classifier to determine a person’s emotion through their facial expression. Even though distinguishing the fundamental expressions by computers has been developed with a level of higher accuracy in simple environments, there is still room to improve on in terms of classifying emotions from facial expressions in a real world environment. Thus we aim to create an efficient, applicable model to work in real world environments, that classifies emotion based on facial expressions; independent of the age, ethnicity, or the appearance of a person.