Dep-FER: Facial Expression Recognition in Depressed Patients Based on Voluntary Facial Expression Mimicry

• Published in: IEEE transactions on affective computing Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 1725 - 1738
• Main Authors: Ye, Jiayu, Yu, Yanhong, Zheng, Yunshao, Liu, Yang, Wang, Qingxiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.07.2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Affective computing; Deep learning; dep -FER; Depression; Face recognition; Faces; Feature extraction; FER; Mimicry; Similarity; Task analysis; Uncertainty

Facial expressions are important nonverbal behaviors that humans use to express their feelings. Clinical research have shown that depressed patients have poor facial expressiveness and mimicry. As a result, we propose a VFEM experiment with seven expressions to explore variations in facial expressio...