Efficient Statistical Learning Framework with Applications to Human Activity and Facial Expression Recognition

Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of human activities and facial expression recognition by investigating the effectiveness of Bayesian inference methods. Indeed, a novel method termed as Bayesian learning for finite multivariate generalized Gaussian mixture model is developed. The multivariate generalized Gaussian distribution is encouraged by its ability to model a large range of data and its shape flexibility. Our main contribution in this work is to develop a Markov Chain Monte Carlo within Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for proposed generative model. In this research, we tackle also some key issues related to machine learning and pattern recognition such as the statistical model’s parameters estimation. We demonstrate the merits of our developed learning framework over two challenging applications that concern human activity recognition and facial expression recognition.