A Computer Vision Based Approach for Understanding Emotional Involvements in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Marco Del Coco, Marco Leo, Pierluigi Carcagni, Paolo Spagnolo, Pier Luigi Mazzeo, Massimo Bernava, Flavia Marino, Giovanni Pioggia, Cosimo Distante; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017, pp. 1401-1407

Abstract


It has been proved that Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are associated with amplified emotional responses and poor emotional control. Underlying mechanisms and characteristics of these difficulties in using, sharing and responding to emotions are still not understood. Recent non-invasive technological frameworks based on computer vision can be applied to overcome this knowledge gap and this paper is right aimed at demonstrating how facial measurements from images can be exploited to compare how ASD children react to external stimuli with respect a control set of children.

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@InProceedings{Coco_2017_ICCV,
author = {Del Coco, Marco and Leo, Marco and Carcagni, Pierluigi and Spagnolo, Paolo and Luigi Mazzeo, Pier and Bernava, Massimo and Marino, Flavia and Pioggia, Giovanni and Distante, Cosimo},
title = {A Computer Vision Based Approach for Understanding Emotional Involvements in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops},
month = {Oct},
year = {2017}
}