CNN-based Broad Learning with Efficient Incremental Reconstruction Model for Facial Emotion Recognition

Convolutional neural network-based broad learning with efficient incremental reconstruction model (CNNBL) is proposed to recognize emotions in human-robot interaction. It aims to extract deep and abstract features from facial emotional images, and reduce the influence of the complex structure and slow network updates on facial emotion recognition in deep learning. Feature extraction is carried out by convolution and maximum pooling, and then the ridge regression algorithm is used for emotion recognition. When the network needs to expand, the network is dynamically updated by incremental learning algorithm. We verified the experimental performance through k-fold cross validation. According to the recognition results, the accuracy on JAFFE database of our proposal is greater than that of the state of the art, such as the Local Binary Patterns with Softmax and Deep Attentive Multi-path convolutional neural network.