

At last, an introduction towards emotions and current databases are given to help understand comprehensively. Next other facial expression recognition techniques are listed and compared to FACS. Then a detail analysis of Facial Action Coding System is given, outlining the development and defining of Facial Action Coding System, and how to apply it. For this, we add to the number of the AU a letter going from A to E (ATrace, EMaximum). At first, previous researches related are briefly introduced with respect. To go further, it is also possible in Paul Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System method to code the intensity of an observed Action Unit (AU).

Friesen in 1976 and then revised in 2002. It was first proposed by Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Facial Action Coding System is now one of state-of-the-art method in the world. Being able to recognize human facial expressions would be of great help to a large amount of aspects such as medical care, building safety system, psychology research and human-computer interaction fields. People’s facial expressions are of vital importance in expressing one’s true feelings. DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
