SEMEOTICONS - In-depth analysis of state-of-the-art for facial expression analysis

Human face can reveal precious information about the healthy or unhealthy status of individuals. SEMEOTICONS aims to exploit the human face as an indicator of individual's health status and translate the semeiotic code of the face into measurements and descriptors automatically evaluated by computerized applications. WP5, in specific, focuses on developing methods for the assessment of stress, anxiety and fatigue based on automatic facial expression analysis using video. Consequently, a complete and thorough analysis of self-contained approaches, specialized methods and reported research results for facial expression analysis, targeted at the detection of signs that disclose such psycho-physical states is performed.