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Although state-of-the-art classifiers for facial expression recognition (FER) can achieve a high level of accuracy, they lack interpretability, an important feature for end-users. Experts typically associate spatial action units (AUs) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

Human affective behavior analysis aims to delve into human expressions and behaviors to deepen our understanding of human emotions. Basic expression categories (EXPR) and Action Units (AUs) are two essential components in this analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Li Lin , Sarah Papabathini , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

We study the problem of facial analysis in videos. We propose a novel weakly supervised learning method that models the video event (expression, pain etc.) as a sequence of automatically mined, discriminative sub-events (eg. onset and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Karan Sikka , Gaurav Sharma , Marian Bartlett

Most state-of-the-art approaches for Facial Action Unit (AU) detection rely upon evaluating facial expressions from static frames, encoding a snapshot of heightened facial activity. In real-world interactions, however, facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Nikhil Churamani , Sinan Kalkan , Hatice Gunes

Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) is a challenging task as the subtle changes occur over different action regions of a face. Changes in facial action regions are formed as Action Units (AUs), and AUs in micro-expressions can be seen as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Ming Dong

Micro-expression Action Unit (AU) detection identifies localized AUs from subtle facial muscle activations, providing a foundation for decoding affective cues. Previous methods face three key limitations: (1) heavy reliance on low-density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhishu Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Bo Zhao , Hui Ma , Zitong Yu

Facial expression synthesis or editing has recently received increasing attention in the field of affective computing and facial expression modeling. However, most existing facial expression synthesis works are limited in paired training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Zhilei Liu , Diyi Liu , Yunpeng Wu

Detecting action units (AUs) on human faces is challenging because various AUs make subtle facial appearance change over various regions at different scales. Current works have attempted to recognize AUs by emphasizing important regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Junhai Yong

High-quality annotated images are significant to deep facial expression recognition (FER) methods. However, uncertain labels, mostly existing in large-scale public datasets, often mislead the training process. In this paper, we achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yang Liu , Xingming Zhang , Janne Kauttonen , Guoying Zhao

Light field (LF) cameras provide rich spatio-angular visual representations by sensing the visual scene from multiple perspectives and have recently emerged as a promising technology to boost the performance of human-machine systems such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam , Ali Etemad , Fernando Pereira , Paulo Lobato Correia

Understanding human affective behaviour, especially in the dynamics of real-world settings, requires Facial Expression Recognition (FER) models to continuously adapt to individual differences in user expression, contextual attributions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Nikhil Churamani , Tolga Dimlioglu , German I. Parisi , Hatice Gunes

The detection of micro-expression Action Units (AUs) is a formidable challenge in affective computing, pivotal for decoding subtle, involuntary human emotions. While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate profound reasoning abilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhishu Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Bo Zhao , Yong Xu , Zitong Yu

Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. To alleviate this problem, a large amount of efforts has been dedicated to exploiting various weakly supervised methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jingwei Yan , Jingjing Wang , Qiang Li , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

We develop a representation suitable for the unconstrained recognition of words in natural images: the general case of no fixed lexicon and unknown length. To this end we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) based architecture which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Max Jaderberg , Karen Simonyan , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Temporal context is key to the recognition of expressions of emotion. Existing methods, that rely on recurrent or self-attention models to enforce temporal consistency, work on the feature level, ignoring the task-specific temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Enrique Sanchez , Mani Kumar Tellamekala , Michel Valstar , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Fully-Automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) from still images is a challenging task as it involves handling large interpersonal morphological differences, and as partial occlusions can occasionally happen. Furthermore, labelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Arnaud Dapogny , Kévin Bailly , Séverine Dubuisson

As affective robots become integral in human life, these agents must be able to fairly evaluate human affective expressions without discriminating against specific demographic groups. Identifying bias in Machine Learning (ML) systems as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Ozgur Kara , Nikhil Churamani , Hatice Gunes

We propose CARFF, a method for predicting future 3D scenes given past observations. Our method maps 2D ego-centric images to a distribution over plausible 3D latent scene configurations and predicts the evolution of hypothesized scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiezhi Yang , Khushi Desai , Charles Packer , Harshil Bhatia , Nicholas Rhinehart , Rowan McAllister , Joseph Gonzalez

This paper presents our Facial Action Units (AUs) detection submission to the fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild Competition (ABAW). Our approach consists of three main modules: (i) a pre-trained facial representation encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zihan Wang , Siyang Song , Cheng Luo , Yuzhi Zhou , Shiling Wu , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen

We study the problem of video classification for facial analysis and human action recognition. We propose a novel weakly supervised learning method that models the video as a sequence of automatically mined, discriminative sub-events (eg.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Karan Sikka , Gaurav Sharma