Comparison and Analysis of Facial Emotion Detection Using Various Deep Learning Neural Networks

Year : 2025 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 02 | Page : 37 42
    By

    V. Anusuya,

  • S. Sakkaravarthi,

  • M. Rethinakumari,

  • Sridhar S.,

  1. Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, Ramco institute of Technology, Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu, India
  2. Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, Ramco institute of Technology, Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu, India
  3. Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, Ramco institute of Technology, Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu, India
  4. Student, Department of Information Technology, Ramco institute of Technology, Rajapalayam, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

Facial emotion recognition employs Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Residual Networks (ResNet), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to automatically identify various emotions, including disgust, anger, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, and neutrality. This study utilizes transfer learning along with data preprocessing techniques such as rotation, flipping, brightness adjustment, and enhancement methods. Traditional machine learning models achieve an accuracy range of 45 to 50%. In contrast, our proposed CNN and DNN models show improved accuracy, reaching 65 and 62%, respectively. Additionally, we introduce a hybrid model combining ResNet and LSTM architecture, which achieves an accuracy of 72%. Following this, we conduct a comparative analysis of the accuracy and loss for each model. Our findings indicate that while CNNs initially demonstrated higher accuracy than the hybrid ResNet-LSTM model, the hybrid model ultimately surpassed all others in total classification accuracy. The performance metrics used in this analysis include recall and precision.

Keywords: Facial emotion recognition (FER), neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), residual networks (ResNet), long short-term memory (LSTM)

[This article belongs to Journal of Image Processing & Pattern Recognition Progress ]

How to cite this article:
V. Anusuya, S. Sakkaravarthi, M. Rethinakumari, Sridhar S.. Comparison and Analysis of Facial Emotion Detection Using Various Deep Learning Neural Networks. Journal of Image Processing & Pattern Recognition Progress. 2025; 12(02):37-42.
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V. Anusuya, S. Sakkaravarthi, M. Rethinakumari, Sridhar S.. Comparison and Analysis of Facial Emotion Detection Using Various Deep Learning Neural Networks. Journal of Image Processing & Pattern Recognition Progress. 2025; 12(02):37-42. Available from: https://journals.stmjournals.com/joipprp/article=2025/view=208926


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Regular Issue Subscription Original Research
Volume 12
Issue 02
Received 06/03/2025
Accepted 06/04/2025
Published 28/04/2025
Publication Time 53 Days
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