A High Schooler’s Journal on Artificial Intelligence: Facial Emotional Recognition and Convolutional Neural Networks

Want to begin the field of Artificial Intelligence through a high schooler’s perspective? Follow the author as she dives into the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), uncovering the background behind the rise of this field, her own personal research on image classification of emotions on human faces, and the ethics and morality behind it. This book is filled with personally drawn, humorous cartoons as well as helpful diagrams to aid the reader through the journey. What this book includes: Background of AI, specifically on Facial Emotional Recognition (FER) and Image Classification Prerequisite section of all of the necessary information (mathematics and Python libraries) Explanation of classification, AI models, and the artificial/general neural network Explanation of convolutional neural networks, specific to FER Personal research project analysis and walkthrough Reflection of ethics and morality, as well as the future and improvements This book is meant to be for high schoolers or younger students that have an understanding of basic Python, with little to no experience in AI or the aforementioned topics.