Journal of Jilin University(Engineering and Technology Edition) ›› 2022, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (4): 897-909.doi: 10.13229/j.cnki.jdxbgxb20200950

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Spontaneous micro-expression recognition based on STA-LSTM

Da-xiang LI1,2(),Meng-si CHEN1,Ying LIU1,2   

  1. 1.College of Communication and Information Engineering，Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications，Xi'an 710121，China
    2.Ministry of Public Security Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Application Technology for Scene Investigation，Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications，Xi'an 710121，China
  • Received:2020-12-09 Online:2022-04-01 Published:2022-04-20

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Abstract:

In order to address the problem that most people are psychologically in sub-healthy state， a bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory （LSTM） network based on spatio-temporal attention is designed to realize the feature extraction and micro-expression recognition for finding out the emotion that people try to conceal. The network consists of three main parts： the bidirectional LSTM module， the spatial attention module and the temporal attention module. Using the micro-expression video as input， the learning network can selectively focus on action units that are significantly different for each frame， and pay different levels of attention to different frames. A new regularized cross-entropy loss function is also designed to further optimize the network， taking into account the correlation between modules. Finally， comparative experiments were performed on CASME， CASMEⅡ， CAS（ME）2， and SAMM. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the accuracy of Micro-Expression recognition and is superior to other methods.

Key words: computer application, micro-expression recognition, long short-term memory, spatial attention, temporal attention

CLC Number: 

  • TP391

Fig.1

STA-LSTM network"

Fig.2

LSTM neuronal structure"

Fig.3

Bidirectional LSTM structure"

Table 1

Emotional classification of CASME、CASMEⅡ、CAS（ME）2 and SAMM"

类别CASMECASMEⅡCAS（ME）2SAMM
总数175249341149
高兴83215124
愤怒--10120
厌恶4363898
恐惧---7
悲伤-8--
惊讶1920-13
压抑3827--
紧张67---
蔑视----
其他-99-77

Fig.4

Illustration of a video frames in happy micro-expression"

Fig.5

Loss function curve"

Fig.6

Influence on accuracy of weight attenuation coefficient λ1 and λ2"

Fig.7

Accuracy performance evaluation of different network modules"

Table 2

Experimental results on CASME，CASMEⅡ and CAS（ME）2"

方 法CASMECASMEⅡCAS（ME）2
F1ACCF1ACCF1ACC
LBP?TOP48.7048.8952.4856.6846.6947.72
LBP?SIP46.3446.1150.2653.8545.5045.56
LOCP?TOP51.1050.0054.5656.6847.8948.88
HOOF49.6849.7040.1042.8046.2045.50
FDM41.1242.0240.0841.9640.3242.26
CNN?LSTM64.3262.1658.9660.9859.9860.55
VGG?1135.6035.4240.2943.5743.7844.29
VGG?1635.7936.5940.6744.2944.0244.29
VGG?1936.2636.5940.9844.2944.0044.28
ResNet75.1976.3971.2974.4972.2874.48
STA?LSTM84.9787.6084.0486.3383.5983.67

Table 3

Experimental results on SAMM"

方 法F1ACC
LBP?TOP40.0341.28
Bi?WOOF52.2451.29
CapsuleNet62.3760.02
OFF?ApexNet54.3454.33
Dual?Inception59.4257.18
STSTNet66.0868.24
Mirco?Attention40.3034.00
ATNet49.6048.20
STA?LSTM78.4982.67

Fig.8

Confusion matrix of standard spontaneous micro-expression databases"

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