Know Them: Convolutional Neural Networks For Facial Emotion Recognition

Humans are capable of thousands of facial actions during communication that varies in complexity, intensity, and meaning. Emotions play a major role in Human life. Visually challenged is one of the marginalized people who face day-to-day problems without seeing the world. They find it difficult to predict the emotional state of a person surrounding them, this project helps them to understand the emotions of others through the facial expressions and thus interact well with people socially especially in public places. The rapid advancement in technology has now helped visually challenged people to explore the world through mobile phones. Few features that help them use these devices are virtual assistants, text-to-voice converters, image recognizers etc. Know Them is an application that uses image processing methods and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithms to identify the emotions of the people that the visually challenged wanted to know.