EXPLAINABLE REAL-TIME FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION: RESNET-50 VERSUS VISION TRANSFORMER WITH RUSSELL’S CIRCUMPLEX MODEL
Facial emotion recognition systems must balance classification accuracy, computational efficiency, and model transparency in real-time settings. This study compares ResNet-50 and Vision Transformer (ViT-Base) on the FER2013 dataset and integrates both models into an explainable real-time prototype. Grayscale facial ima...