Università della Svizzera italiana

Computational assessment of facial expression production in ASD children

Leo, Marco ; Carcagnì, Pierluigi ; Distante, Cosimo ; Spagnolo, Paolo ; Mazzeo, Pier Luigi ; Rosato, Anna Chiara ; Petrocchi, Serena ; Pellegrino, Chiara ; Levante, Annalisa ; De Lumè, Filomena ; Lecciso, Flavia

In: Sensors, 2018, vol. 18, no. 11, p. 3993

In this paper, a computational approach is proposed and put into practice to assess the capability of children having had diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to produce facial expressions. The proposed approach is based on computer vision components working on sequence of images acquired by an off-the-shelf camera in unconstrained conditions. Action unit intensities are estimated by...