LiteFer: An Approach Based on MobileViT Expression Recognition

  • 0Electronic Information Department, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China.

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Summary

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LiteFer, a new lightweight network, efficiently recognizes facial expressions on mobile devices. It uses depth-separable convolution and attention to reduce size without losing accuracy, outperforming other methods.

Area Of Science

  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning

Background

  • Facial expression recognition is crucial for human-computer interaction.
  • Complex Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) hinder deployment on resource-limited devices.
  • Lightweight networks aim to reduce model size and parameters while maintaining accuracy.

Purpose Of The Study

  • To develop a lightweight facial expression recognition method for mobile devices.
  • To reduce network complexity and parameters without sacrificing recognition accuracy.
  • To introduce the LiteFer method incorporating depth-separable convolution and attention.

Main Methods

  • Implemented depth-separable convolution for efficient feature extraction.
  • Integrated a lightweight attention mechanism to focus on salient facial features.
  • Conducted comparative experiments on benchmark datasets (RAFDB, FERPlus).

Main Results

  • LiteFer significantly reduces network parameters compared to existing methods.
  • The proposed method demonstrates superior performance in facial expression recognition.
  • Achieved high accuracy on both RAFDB and FERPlus datasets.

Conclusions

  • LiteFer offers an effective solution for deploying facial expression recognition on edge devices.
  • The method balances model efficiency with high recognition accuracy.
  • LiteFer represents a significant advancement in lightweight deep learning for computer vision.