Real-time Student Classroom Feedback with the RFMNet Framework in a Smart Classroom

Facial expression recognition is the ability to interpret human feelings from facial features. Teachers can use it to visualize the state of emotion and estimate students' learning effects to take corresponding intervention strategies to improve teaching. The current technology has shortcomings such as network performance degradation and feature information loss, which cannot meet the needs of sentiment analysis of student feedback. Therefore, RFMNet, a novel network model based on deep learning theory, is proposed in this paper. Featuring higher extraction ability, it is conducive to accurately analysing students' expressions. First of all, this model introduces a relation-aware global attention (RGA) module to better integrate the more discriminative expression features in the image and achieve more refined sentiment analysis. Second, the Mish activation function and the focal loss function are employed. The Mish activation function is introduced to avoid disappearing feature information due to neuron deactivation when the ReLU gradient is 0. The model achieves an average recognition accuracy of 89.62%, as confirmed through a sequence of trials conducted on the public dataset FERPlus. The model helps achieve intelligent processing of teaching information and obtaining real-time feedback by detecting, extracting, and analysing the students' facial expressions.