In this chapter, we will cover a complete IBM Cloud-based expression classification solution that will use deep learning machine learning techniques on the IBM Cloud platform. The solution will implement a simple, yet efficient, ML model using TensorFlow and the ML services available with IBM Watson Studio. The goal is to illustrate an end-to-end solution for a complex ML task.
We will divide this chapter into the following areas:
- Understanding facial expression classification
- Exploring expression databases
- Preprocessing faces
- Learning the expression classifier
- Evaluating the expression classifier