MCAN: An Efficient Multi-Task Network for Facial Expression Analysis

With the development of artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence technology is widely used in robots. For example, emotional computing robots need to be able to complete the function of facial expression analysis. The multi-task deep learning model MCAN proposed in this paper is designed to complete facial expression analysis for robots which can predict discrete expressions and dimensional measures. The class center loss function proposed in this paper can increase the inter-class distance while reducing the intra-class distance. In addition, multi-head attention network was improved to focus on different areas of the input image. Finally, feature pyramid network allows information exchange and fusion between feature maps at different levels. Experiments have proven that MCAN achieves excellent results on both the AffectNet dataset and the AFEW-VA dataset, and also speeds up inference.