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Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal genuine emotions, typically lasting less than half a second. Recognizing these subtle expressions is critical for applications in psychology, security, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

How to extract effective expression representations that invariant to the identity-specific attributes is a long-lasting problem for facial expression recognition (FER). Most of the previous methods process the RGB images of a sequence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiaofeng Liu , Linghao Jin , Xu Han , Jane You

Facial micro-expressions recognition has attracted much attention recently. Micro-expressions have the characteristics of short duration and low intensity, and it is difficult to train a high-performance classifier with the limited number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yanxin Song , Jianzong Wang , Tianbo Wu , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

Micro-expressions (MEs) are subtle, transient facial changes with very low intensity, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, yet they reveal a person genuine emotion. They are of great value in lie detection, behavioral analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Thi Bich Phuong Man , Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Spotting facial micro-expression from videos finds various potential applications in fields including clinical diagnosis and interrogation, meanwhile this task is still difficult due to the limited scale of training data. To solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yi Zhang , Youjun Zhao , Yuhang Wen , Zixuan Tang , Xinhua Xu , Mengyuan Liu

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief and involuntary facial expressions that occur when people are trying to hide their true feelings or conceal their emotions. Based on psychology research, MEs play an important role in understanding genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Thuong-Khanh Tran , Quang-Nhat Vo , Xiaopeng Hong , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

A micro-expression is a spontaneous unconscious facial muscle movement that can reveal the true emotions people attempt to hide. Although manual methods have made good progress and deep learning is gaining prominence. Due to the short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Fengping Wang , Jie Li , Chun Qi , Lin Wang , Pan Wang

Micro-expression recognition (MER) has drawn increasing attention in recent years due to its potential applications in intelligent medical and lie detection. However, the shortage of annotated data has been the major obstacle to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hanting Li , Hongjing Niu , Feng Zhao

Micro-expressions are nonverbal facial expressions that reveal the covert emotions of individuals, making the micro-expression recognition task receive widespread attention. However, the micro-expression recognition task is challenging due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ren Zhang , Jianqin Yin , Chao Qi , Zehao Wang , Zhicheng Zhang , Yonghao Dang

Micro-expressions are brief and subtle facial expressions that go on and off the face in a fraction of a second. This kind of facial expressions usually occurs in high stake situations and is considered to reflect a human's real intent.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Carlos Arango Duque , Olivier Alata , Rémi Emonet , Hubert Konik , Anne-Claire Legrand

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary, low-intensity, and short-duration facial expressions that often reveal an individual's genuine thoughts and emotions. Most existing ME analysis methods rely on window-level classification with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zizheng Guo , Bochao Zou , Yinuo Jia , Xiangyu Li , Huimin Ma

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary and subtle facial expressions that are thought to reveal feelings people are trying to hide. ME spotting detects the temporal intervals containing MEs in videos. Detecting such quick and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yini Fang , Didan Deng , Liang Wu , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Emotion recognition from facial expressions is tremendously useful, especially when coupled with smart devices and wireless multimedia applications. However, the inadequate network bandwidth often limits the spatial resolution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Bowen Cheng , Zhangyang Wang , Zhaobin Zhang , Zhu Li , Ding Liu , Jianchao Yang , Shuai Huang , Thomas S. Huang

Micro-expressions are hard to spot due to fleeting and involuntary moments of facial muscles. Interpretation of micro emotions from video clips is a challenging task. In this paper we propose an affective-motion imaging that cumulates rapid…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

With the growth of popularity of facial micro-expressions in recent years, the demand for long videos with micro- and macro-expressions remains high. Extended from SAMM, a micro-expressions dataset released in 2016, this paper presents SAMM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Chuin Hong Yap , Connah Kendrick , Moi Hoon Yap

Facial expression detection involves two interrelated tasks: spotting, which identifies the onset and offset of expressions, and recognition, which classifies them into emotional categories. Most existing methods treat these tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yini Fang , Alec Diallo , Yiqi Shi , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Cross-modal video retrieval aims to retrieve the semantically relevant videos given a text as a query, and is one of the fundamental tasks in Multimedia. Most of top-performing methods primarily leverage Visual Transformer (ViT) to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ning Han , Xun Yang , Ee-Peng Lim , Hao Chen , Qianru Sun

Micro-Expression Recognition has become challenging, as it is extremely difficult to extract the subtle facial changes of micro-expressions. Recently, several approaches proposed several expression-shared features algorithms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Xiaohua Huang , Feifei Zhang , Zhihong Zhang

Facial micro-expressions are sudden involuntary minute muscle movements which reveal true emotions that people try to conceal. Spotting a micro-expression and recognizing it is a major challenge owing to its short duration and intensity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sauradip Nag , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aishik Konwer , Partha Pratim Roy

Video representation is a key challenge in many computer vision applications such as video classification, video captioning, and video surveillance. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for video representation that captures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Mohammadreza Babaee , David Full , Gerhard Rigoll