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On Relation Between Facial Expressions and Emotions

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Human face is used to express affects and feelings, either involuntary or deliberately. How many dimensions of emotional flavors can be robustly distinguished in facial expressions, across individuals and cultures? Here we offer an answer and develop a practical approach to generate synthetic emotional facial expressions. Results can be used in studies of synthetic emotions.

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The authors are grateful to Aleksey Kevroletin, Mark Karavashkin, Georgy Vayntrub, Vera Mironova, Zhanna Demidova, Ismail M. Gadzhiev, Mikhail Knyshenko, and Sergei Dolenko for their contribution to this project. This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation Grant #22–11-00213, https://rscf.ru/en/project/22-11-00213/.

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Samsonovich, A.V., Sidorov, A., Inozemtsev, A. (2023). On Relation Between Facial Expressions and Emotions. In: Hammer, P., Alirezaie, M., Strannegård, C. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13921. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33469-6_22

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