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Enhanced Depression Detection from Facial Cues Using Univariate Feature Selection Techniques

  • Swati RathiEmail author
  • Baljeet Kaur
  • R. K. Agrawal
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11941)

Abstract

Timely detection of depression and the accurate assessment of its severity are the two major challenges that face the medical community. To assist the clinicians, various objective measures are being explored by researchers. In literature, features extracted from the images or videos, are found relevant for detection of depression. Various feature extraction methods are suggested in literature. However, the high dimensionality of the features so obtained provide an overfitted learning model. This is handled in this work with the help of three popular univariate filter feature selection methods, which identify the reduced size of relevant subset of features. The combinations of univariate techniques with well-known classification and regression techniques are investigated. The performance of classification and regression techniques improved with the use of feature selection methods. Moreover, the proposed model has outperformed most of the video-based existing methods for identifying depression and determining its level of severity.

Keywords

Classification Depression Motion History Image Regression Univariate feature selection Visual features 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Computer and Systems SciencesJNUDelhiIndia
  2. 2.Hansraj CollegeUniversity of DelhiDelhiIndia

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