I am working on emotion recognition using facial expressions. I have to classify static images into one of the following (happy, surprise, sad, angry, etc.,) using characteristics of the face image. i have cropped the image into various parts such as eyes, nose, eyebrows etc. but i don't know what to consider and store as features of the data set, and in which form it is? if it is some numerical values for each of these features to store, how to get those values?
suggest me some good papers or books to refer? or MATLAB functions?