Effectiveness of Using Artificial Intelligence for Early Child Development Screening

This study presents a novel approach to recognizing emotions in infants using machine learning models. To address the lack of infant-specific datasets, a custom dataset of infants' faces was created by extracting images from the AffectNet dataset. The dataset was then used to train various mach...

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Main Authors: Gau, Michael-Lian, Ting, Huong-Yong, Toh, Teck-Hock, Wong, Pui-Ying, Woo, Pei Jun *, Wo, Su-Woan, Tan, Gek-Ling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tecno Scientifica 2023
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Online Access:http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2343/1/134.pdf
http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2343/
https://doi.org/10.53623/gisa.v3i1.229
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Summary:This study presents a novel approach to recognizing emotions in infants using machine learning models. To address the lack of infant-specific datasets, a custom dataset of infants' faces was created by extracting images from the AffectNet dataset. The dataset was then used to train various machine learning models with different parameters. The best-performing model was evaluated on the City Infant Faces dataset. The proposed deep learning model achieved an accuracy of 94.63% in recognizing positive, negative, and neutral facial expressions. These results provide a benchmark for the performance of machine learning models in infant emotion recognition and suggest potential applications in developing emotion-sensitive technologies for infants. This study fills a gap in the literature on emotion recognition, which has largely focused on adults or children and highlights the importance of developing infant-specific datasets and evaluating different parameters to achieve accurate results.