# Exploiting Facial Landmarks for Emotion Recognition in the Wild

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09129 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.09129/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 30 Mar 2016.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [LOTR: Face Landmark Localization Using Localization Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.10057/) (2021)
- [Sub-pixel face landmarks using heatmaps and a bag of tricks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.03059/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we describe an entry to the third Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge, EmotiW2015. We detail the associated experiments and show that, through more accurately locating the facial landmarks, and considering only the distances between them, we can achieve a surprising level of performance. The resulting system is not only more accurate than the challenge baseline, but also much simpler.