Mean of correlation method for optimization of affective states detection in children

Rusli, Nazreen and Sidek, Shahrul Na'im and Md Yusuf, Hazlina and Ishak, Nor Izzati (2018) Mean of correlation method for optimization of affective states detection in children. IEEE Access, 6. pp. 68487-68497. ISSN 2169-3536

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Abstract

At the moment, most of the studies on classification of affective states for children focus on visual observations and physiological cues, where all data collection for measuring physiological signals are contact-based and invasive. With the requirement of having the measuring device attached to the body approach, distraction of the subject normally masks the true affective states of the subject due to discomfort. In this paper, a non-invasive, contactless, and less distraction method is proposed to measure the physiological cues of the subjects using their thermal imprints from frontal face imaging. A thermal image camera is used to identify basic affective states, where it is a contactless and seamless device with ability to read the radiated thermal imprint of the subjects’ facial skin temperature. This paper proposes an effective algorithm of texture analysis based on novel technique using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix approach to be applied so as to identify blood-flow region. The cues from the first order statistics are computed in the identified blood flow region and concatenated along with second order statistics cues, in order to construct feature vectors to administer the vital and distinguishable characteristic pattern between affective states in thermal images. Result from the fine k-NN classifier obtained promises the efficacy of the proposed approach to be applied in our future work in human–robot interaction for autistic children learning and training.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	3028/68664
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Affective states; Facial skin temperature; Thermal imaging
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Mechatronics Engineering
Depositing User:	Dr. Shahrul Naim Sidek
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2018 09:28
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2019 10:01
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/68664

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