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Area of Science:

  • Computer Science
  • Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Driver emotional state significantly impacts road safety and decision-making.
  • Facial micro-expressions offer universal cues to genuine emotions, even when concealed.
  • The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) provides a framework for analyzing expressions via Action Units (AUs).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a micro-expression recognition framework for identifying driver emotional states.
  • To leverage facial Action Units (AUs) for precise emotion detection in drivers.
  • To enhance road safety through accurate analysis of driver emotions.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a hybrid model combining Residual Network (ResNet18) for spatial features and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) for temporal patterns.
  • Employed agglomerative clustering of AU combinations to improve emotion classification accuracy.
  • Trained and validated the framework on SAMM and KMU-FED benchmark datasets.

Main Results:

  • Achieved high recognition accuracies of 96.38% on SAMM and 95.96% on KMU-FED datasets.
  • Demonstrated 91.00% accuracy in detecting driver emotional states through case analysis.
  • Identified anger, disgust, sadness, and fear as predominant emotions in drivers.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework effectively recognizes driver emotions using AU-based micro-expression analysis.
  • Accurate detection of driver emotions via micro-expressions can significantly contribute to road safety.
  • Harnessing AUs for micro-expression recognition offers a precise method for assessing driver emotional states.