Xception CNN-Ensemble Learning Based Facial Emotion Recognition

Emotions in human is an effective medium to study the mindset of a person. Since, expression on the face of human is significant approach to understand the condition and communicate with him to release the pressure or stress of person. The emotions and behavior have a strong relationship and is noteworthy in non-verbal form of communication. The advancement in medical science and use of image processing tools like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), can be helpful to recognize emotion, detect stress and depression level of a person. Thus, in this research work emotion recognition system is developed using Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) with increased depth and width. CNNs have been shown to enhance prediction accuracy. In terms of proper emotion categorization and accurate prediction, the suggested ensemble technique is effective. In this paper Xception CNN architecture is proposed for accurate facial emotions prediction along with an ensemble model, using Max Voting ensemble technique, mainly contributes in accurate classification. In proposed technique trained CNN models were loaded and for each trained model prediction probabilities were generated. Furthermore, it is then used for Max Voting to generate final emotion prediction. The CNN models are trained and evaluated on FER-2013 dataset.