Learning informative and discriminative semantic features for robust facial expression recognition

Yumei Tan, Haiying Xia, Shuxiang Song

Abstract: Highlights•An effective IDSFL network is presented to learn robust representations for FER in the wild.•A novel multi-channel feature modulator incorporating Gabor features is proposed to learn informative features.•A specific emotion-aware module is used to learn discriminative semantic features for specific expression categories.