Emotion recognition plays a critical role in the human communications. It is one of the major ways to be in touch with others. Four parameters including eye opening size, mouth opening size, ratio of eye opening size to eye width and mouth width are used as a reduced-size feature set in this study. This paper compares the performance of facial emotion recognition classification models based on the following computational intelligence methods: fuzzy logic, chaotic gravitational search algorithm (CGSA), and artificial neural network (ANN) from eyes and mouth features tested on the FACES database. Experimental results show the superior performance of ANN-based method compared to fuzzy- and CGSA-based methods. In addition, this comparative study triggers the idea of a hybrid system based on these computational methods that outperforms the human detection system. Manuscript profile

Recently, image segmentation based on graph cut methods has shown impressive performance on a set of image data. Although the kernel graph cut method provides good performance, its performance is highly dependent on the data mapping to the transformation space and image features. Entropy-based kernel graph cut method is suitable for segmentation of textured images. However, the quality of its segmentation is affected by the quality of extracting kernel centers. This paper examines the segmentation of textured images using the entropy-based kernel graph cut method based on weighted k-means. Using the advantages of kernel space, the objective function consists of two data terms to transfer the data standard deviation of each area in the segmented image and the regularization term. The proposed method, while using the advantages of suitable computational load of graph cut methods, will be a suitable alternative for segmenting textured images. Laboratory results have been taken on a set of well-known datasets that include textured shapes in order to evaluate the efficiency of the algorithm compared to other states-of-the-art methods in the field of kernel graph cut. Manuscript profile