  We describe our approach towards building an efficient predictive model to
detect emotions for a group of people in an image. We have proposed that
training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model on the emotion heatmaps
extracted from the image, outperforms a CNN model trained entirely on the raw
images. The comparison of the models have been done on a recently published
dataset of Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) challenge, 2017. The
proposed method achieved validation accuracy of 55.23% which is 2.44% above the
baseline accuracy, provided by the EmotiW organizers.
