FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION

Facial Expression Recognition is a system which provides an interface for computer and human interaction. With the advancement of technology and need of the hour such systems have earned the interest of researchers in psychology, medicine, computer science and similar other fields as its applications are identified in such fields. Facial expression recognizer is an application which uses live data coming from the camera or even the existing videos to capture the expressions of the person in the video and is represented on the screen in the form of attractive emojis. Expressions form the basis of human communication and interaction. Expressions are used as a crucial tool to study the behaviour in the medicine and psychological fields to understand the state of mind of the people. The main objective to develop such a system was to be able to classify facial expressions using CNN algorithm which is responsible for the expression detection and then providing a corresponding emoticon relevant to detected facial expression as the output.