Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Lightweight Residual Cnn Architecture For Facial Expression Recognition' Filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology

MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122239 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'lightweight residual cnn architecture for facial expression recognition.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Krishnaraj Natarajan; Ms. Manvendra Singh; and Mr. Kshitiz Bhargava.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a facial expression recognition system comprising a lightweight residual convolutional neural network architecture configured to process facial images having dimensions of 96 96 3 pixels. The architecture ...