Turkish Presidential Elections TRT Publicity Speech Facial Expression Analysis

08/15/2014

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by   H. Emrah Tasli, et al.

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In this paper, facial expressions of the three Turkish presidential candidates Demirtas, Erdogan and Ihsanoglu (in alphabetical order) are analyzed during the publicity speeches featured at TRT (Turkish Radio and Television) on 03.08.2014. FaceReader is used for the analysis where 3D modeling of the face is achieved using the active appearance models (AAM). Over 500 landmark points are tracked and analyzed for obtaining the facial expressions during the whole speech. All source videos and the data are publicly available for research purposes.