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Objectifying Facial Expressivity Assessment of Parkinson’s Patients: Preliminary Study
1 Jan 2014
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) can exhibit a reduction of spontaneous facial expression, designated as "facial masking," a symptom in which facial muscles become rigid. To improve clinical assessment of facial expressivity of PD, this work attempts to quantify the dynamic facial expressivity (facial activity) of PD by automatically recognizing facial action units (AUs) and estimating their intensity....
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