MFED: A Database for Masked Facial Expression

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 9; pp. 96279 - 96287
• Main Authors: Mo, Fan, Zhang, Zhihao, Chen, Tong, Zhao, Ke, Fu, Xiaolan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Artificial neural networks; Clips; CNN; Context; Emotion recognition; emotional recognition; Emotions; Encoding; Feature extraction; LBP-TOP; Masked expression; Motion pictures; Orthogonality; Support vector machines; SVM; Training

Humans sometimes intentionally altered facial expression to mask the genuine emotions for certain purposes. Such masked facial expressions have seldom been recorded. In this study, we constructed a facial expression database in which participants were required to watch emotional video clips and make...