Multi-attention micro-expression recognition based on color and optical flow
The optical flow method cannot fully exploit the facial color information of micro-expressions,resulting in low recognition accuracy.Therefore,this paper proposes a multi-attention dual-flow network method based on color and optical flow.Firstly,the facial color difference maps are obtained in the CIE Luv color space,and the emotional-physiological features are extracted to compensate for the singularity and limitation of the micro-expression optical flow features.Then,the PAM module and ECA block are combined in parallel to obtain the lightweight dual-attention module,which extracts the spatial and channel key features.Finally,a cross-attention mechanism is designed to obtain mixed features of color and optical flow.The mixed features are fused with spatial channel key features for micro-expression classification.The model is evaluated experimentally using leave-one-out cross-validation.The accuracy and F1 scores reach 69.18%and 67.04%on the SAMM dataset,and 72.38%and 70.85%on the CASME Ⅱ dataset.The experimental results are superior to the current mainstream algorithms,further proving the effectiveness of the proposed model and its modules in micro-expression recognition.