Facial Expression Recognition with Hybrid Models
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+ Can a model reliably read human emotions from a single image? This project explores facial expression recognition by classifying faces into categories such as happiness, sadness, anger, and surprise. We build a small interactive demo that visualizes predicted emotions on input images.
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+ To achieve this, we combine CNNs for spatial feature extraction with RNNs to capture temporal patterns, comparing pretrained models (MobileNetV2, InceptionV3) with a custom CNN-RNN trained from scratch on FER2013 and CK+ datasets.
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+ The project focuses on evaluating performance, robustness, and how transfer learning influences emotion recognition across different data conditions.
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