Facial Action Coding System

Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a system originally developed by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen in 1976, to taxonomize every conceivable human facial expression. It is the most popular standard currently used to systematically categorize the physical expression of emotions, and it has proven useful both to psychologists and to animators. It defines expressions as one of 46 "Action Units", which is a contraction or relaxation of one or more muscles. For example, it can be used to distinguish the two types of smiles as follows: Although the labeling of expressions currently requires trained experts, researchers have had some success in using computers to automatically identify FACS codes, and thus quickly identify emotions. http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/face_anim/ekman.html

Codes for common action units

(Also see the list of facial muscles.)

Action units involving facial muscles

Other action units

  • 51 Head turn left
  • 52 Head turn right
  • 53 Head up
  • 54 Head down
  • 55 Head tilt left
  • 56 Head tilt right
  • 57 Head forward
  • 58 Head back
  • 61 Eyes turn left
  • 62 Eyes turn right
  • 63 Eyes up
  • 64 Eyes down

External links

* Article at About.com

 

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