Are paired or single stimuli better to recognize genuine and posed
smiles from observers' GSR
Abstract
Smile recognition plays a vital role in human-human and human-computer
interactions. This paper demonstrates a system to recognize the genuine
and posed smiles by sensing observers’ galvanic skin response (GSR),
while watching sets of images and videos. The smiles were shown either
in ‘paired’ or in ‘single’ forms. Here, ‘paired’ means that the same
smiler was seen in both genuine and posed
smile forms, otherwise the condition is referred to as ‘single’. The GSR
signals were recorded and processed, and several time-domain and
frequency-domain features were extracted from the processed GSR signals.
Classification accuracies were found to be as high as 93.6% and 91.4%
from paired and single conditions respectively. In comparison, observers
were verbally 59.8% and 56.2% correct. Our results demonstrate that
human subconscious responses (i.e. GSR signals) is better than their own
verbal response, where the paired condition is slightly better than the
single condition.