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This paper presents a subject-independent facial action unit (AU) detection method by introducing the concept of relative AU detection, for scenarios where the neutral face is not provided. We propose a new classification objective function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Mahmoud Khademi , Louis-Philippe Morency

Biometric systems based on Machine learning and Deep learning are being extensively used as authentication mechanisms in resource-constrained environments like smartphones and other small computing devices. These AI-powered facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Mohit Raghavendra , Pravan Omprakash , B R Mukesh , Sowmya Kamath

The quantified measurement of facial expressiveness is crucial to analyze human affective behavior at scale. Unfortunately, methods for expressiveness quantification at the video frame-level are largely unexplored, unlike the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Md Taufeeq Uddin , Shaun Canavan

Extraction of discriminative features from salient facial patches plays a vital role in effective facial expression recognition. The accurate detection of facial landmarks improves the localization of the salient patches on face images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 S L Happy , Aurobinda Routray

The face reenactment is a popular facial animation method where the person's identity is taken from the source image and the facial motion from the driving image. Recent works have demonstrated high quality results by combining the facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Soumya Tripathy , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

The ability to accurately recognize an individual's face with respect to human aging factor holds significant importance for various private as well as government sectors such as customs and public security bureaus, passport office, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Wang Yao , Muhammad Ali Farooq , Joseph Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Robust face detection is one of the most important pre-processing steps to support facial expression analysis, facial landmarking, face recognition, pose estimation, building of 3D facial models, etc. Although this topic has been intensely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Yutong Zheng , Chenchen Zhu , Khoa Luu , Chandrasekhar Bhagavatula , T. Hoang Ngan Le , Marios Savvides

Facial action unit (FAU) intensities are popular descriptors for the analysis of facial behavior. However, FAUs are sparsely represented when only a few are activated at a time. In this study, we explore the possibility of representing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Minh Tran , Ellen Bradley , Michelle Matvey , Joshua Woolley , Mohammad Soleymani

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) has been used by numerous studies to investigate the links between facial behavior and mental health. The laborious and costly process of FACS coding has motivated the development of machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Evangelos Sariyanidi , Lisa Yankowitz , Robert T. Schultz , John D. Herrington , Birkan Tunc , Jeffrey Cohn

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent agents and systems. However, key challenges remain in utilizing FER in real-world contexts, including ensuring user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sanjeev Nahulanthran , Leimin Tian , Dana Kulić , Mor Vered

Micro-facial expressions are regarded as an important human behavioural event that can highlight emotional deception. Spotting these movements is difficult for humans and machines, however research into using computer vision to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Adrian K. Davison , Cliff Lansley , Choon Ching Ng , Kevin Tan , Moi Hoon Yap

This paper presents a novel approach in a rarely studied area of computer vision: Human interaction recognition in still images. We explore whether the facial regions and their spatial configurations contribute to the recognition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Gokhan Tanisik , Cemil Zalluhoglu , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Face recognition presents a challenging problem in the field of image analysis and computer vision. The security of information is becoming very significant and difficult. Security cameras are presently common in airports, Offices,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Divyarajsinh N. Parmar , Brijesh B. Mehta

In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to simultaneously analyze facial movements and several peripheral physiological signals to decode individualized affective experiences under positive and negative emotional contexts, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yu Yin , Mohsen Nabian , Miolin Fan , ChunAn Chou , Maria Gendron , Sarah Ostadabbas

The ability of robots to recognize human gestures facilitates a natural and accessible human-robot collaboration. However, most work in gesture recognition remains rooted in reference frame-dependent representations. This poses a challenge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Arno Verduyn , Maxim Vochten , Joris De Schutter

This paper presents a novel framework for real-time human action recognition in industrial contexts, using standard 2D cameras. We introduce a complete pipeline for robust and real-time estimation of human joint kinematics, input to a…

We introduce a novel method that combines differential geometry, kernels smoothing, and spectral analysis to quantify facial muscle activity from widely accessible video recordings, such as those captured on personal smartphones. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Juni Kim , Zhikang Dong , Pawel Polak

In this paper, we present SAFER, a novel system for emotion recognition from facial expressions. It employs state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to extract various features from facial images and incorporates contextual information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Mijanur Palash , Bharat Bhargava

Pose-invariant face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern AI-based face recognition systems. It aims at matching a profile face captured in the wild with a frontal face registered in a database. Existing methods perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Nikolay Stanishev , Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi

The analysis of expression and facial Action Units (AUs) detection are very important tasks in fields of computer vision and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) due to the wide range of applications in human life. Many works has been done…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Mohammadamin Abbasnejad , Mohammad Ali Masnadi-Shirazi