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Existing action recognition methods typically sample a few frames to represent each video to avoid the enormous computation, which often limits the recognition performance. To tackle this problem, we propose Ample and Focal Network (AFNet),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yitian Zhang , Yue Bai , Huan Wang , Yi Xu , Yun Fu

Automated human emotion recognition from facial expressions is a well-studied problem and still remains a very challenging task. Some efficient or accurate deep learning models have been presented in the literature. However, it is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Monu Verma , Murari Mandal , Satish Kumar Reddy , Yashwanth Reddy Meedimale , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

This paper addresses the expression (EXPR) recognition challenge in the 10th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) workshop and competition, which requires frame-level classification of eight facial emotional expressions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiajun Sun , Zhe Gao

Facial expression recognition in videos is an active area of research in computer vision. However, fake facial expressions are difficult to be recognized even by humans. On the other hand, facial micro-expressions generally represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Surya Teja Karri , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

Recent incremental learning for action recognition usually stores representative videos to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. However, only a few bulky videos can be stored due to the limited memory. To address this problem, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yixuan Pei , Zhiwu Qing , Jun Cen , Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Yaxiong Wang , Mingqian Tang , Nong Sang , Xueming Qian

The video-based facial expression recognition aims to classify a given video into several basic emotions. How to integrate facial features of individual frames is crucial for this task. In this paper, we propose the Frame Attention Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Debin Meng , Xiaojiang Peng , Kai Wang , Yu Qiao

This paper discusses a novel method for Facial Expression Recognition System which performs facial expression analysis in a near real time from a live web cam feed. Primary objectives were to get results in a near real time with light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Saumil Srivastava

Most deep learning methods for video frame interpolation consist of three main components: feature extraction, motion estimation, and image synthesis. Existing approaches are mainly distinguishable in terms of how these modules are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Moritz Nottebaum , Stefan Roth , Simone Schaub-Meyer

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging task, due to the transience, subtlety, and dynamics of micro-expressions (MEs). Most existing methods resort to hand-crafted features or deep networks, in which the former often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Fan Zhang , Xuehuai Shi , Canlin Li , Lizhuang Ma , Dit-yan Yeung

Multi-modal transformers are rapidly gaining attention in video captioning tasks. Existing multi-modal video captioning methods typically extract a fixed number of frames, which raises critical challenges. When a limited number of frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Sangho Lee , Il Yong Chun , Hogun Park

In this paper, we propose a framework named OCSampler to explore a compact yet effective video representation with one short clip for efficient video recognition. Recent works prefer to formulate frame sampling as a sequential decision task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Jintao Lin , Haodong Duan , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Limin Wang

We present a novel simple yet effective algorithm for motion-based video frame interpolation. Existing motion-based interpolation methods typically rely on a pre-trained optical flow model or a U-Net based pyramid network for motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xin Jin , Longhai Wu , Guotao Shen , Youxin Chen , Jie Chen , Jayoon Koo , Cheul-hee Hahm

Detecting concealed emotions within apparently normal expressions is crucial for identifying potential mental health issues and facilitating timely support and intervention. The task of spotting macro and micro-expressions involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pei-Sze Tan , Sailaja Rajanala , Arghya Pal , Raphaël C. -W. Phan , Huey-Fang Ong

Micro-expression analysis has applications in domains such as Human-Robot Interaction and Driver Monitoring Systems. Accurately capturing subtle and fast facial movements remains difficult when relying solely on RGB cameras, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Nicolas Mastropasqua , Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova , Rodrigo Verschae , Daniel Acevedo , Pablo Negri , Maria E. Buemi

Optical flow techniques are becoming increasingly performant and robust when estimating motion in a scene, but their performance has yet to be proven in the area of facial expression recognition. In this work, a variety of optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Benjamin Allaert , Isaac Ronald Ward , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Chaabane Djeraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

Most micro- and macro-expression spotting methods in untrimmed videos suffer from the burden of video-wise collection and frame-wise annotation. Weakly-supervised expression spotting (WES) based on video-level labels can potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wang-Wang Yu , Kai-Fu Yang , Hong-Mei Yan , Yong-Jie Li

Micro-expression (ME) recognition plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, particularly in public security and psychotherapy. Recently, traditional methods rely excessively on machine learning design and the recognition rate is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Jinming Liu , Ke Li , Baolin Song , Li Zhao

The task of macro- and micro-expression spotting aims to precisely localize and categorize temporal expression instances within untrimmed videos. Given the sparse distribution and varying durations of expressions, existing anchor-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Wang-Wang Yu , Kai-Fu Yang , Xiangrui Hu , Jingwen Jiang , Hong-Mei Yan , Yong-Jie Li

Facial expression recognition, as a vital computer vision task, is garnering significant attention and undergoing extensive research. Although facial expression recognition algorithms demonstrate impressive performance on high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jingyi Shi

Humans modify their facial expressions in order to communicate their internal states and sometimes to mislead observers regarding their true emotional states. Evidence in experimental psychology shows that discriminative facial responses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Kaustubh Kulkarni , Ciprian Adrian Corneanu , Ikechukwu Ofodile , Sergio Escalera , Xavier Baro , Sylwia Hyniewska , Juri Allik , Gholamreza Anbarjafari