Emotion recognition using facial expressions in an immersive virtual reality application

• Published in: Virtual reality : the journal of the Virtual Reality Society Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 1717 - 1732
• Main Authors: Chen, Xinrun, Chen, Hengxin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer London 01.09.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Computer Graphics; Computer Science; Context; Emotion recognition; Emotions; Eye (anatomy); Face recognition; Helmet mounted displays; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Immersive virtual reality; Infrared cameras; Light sources; Original Article; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Virtual reality; Emotion recognition; Data synthesis; Virtual reality; Machine learning

Facial expression recognition (FER) is an important method to study and distinguish human emotions. In the virtual reality (VR) context, people’s emotions are instantly and naturally triggered and mobilized due to the high immersion and realism of VR. However, when people are wearing head mounted di...