How to use PHOG and LPQ features for Emotion Recognition?
To train your SVM inevitably you need some baseline, which can be accquired from FERA 2011 contest. The whole procedure using this data is described in Emotion Recognition Using PHOG and LPQ features by Abhinav Dhall, Akshay Asthana, Roland Goecke and Tom Gedeon. After reading that there is a follow up FERA 2015.