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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

Facial Action Units (AUs) represent a set of facial muscular activities and various combinations of AUs can represent a wide range of emotions. AU recognition is often used in many applications, including marketing, healthcare, education,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Junya Saito , Xiaoyu Mi , Akiyoshi Uchida , Sachihiro Youoku , Takahisa Yamamoto , Kentaro Murase , Osafumi Nakayama

Despite much progress in the field of facial expression recognition, little attention has been paid to the recognition of peak emotion. Aviezer et al. [1] showed that humans have trouble discerning between positive and negative peak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Tzvi Michelson , Hillel Aviezer , Shmuel Peleg

Being spontaneous, micro-expressions are useful in the inference of a person's true emotions even if an attempt is made to conceal them. Due to their short duration and low intensity, the recognition of micro-expressions is a difficult task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Liangfei Zhang , Xiaopeng Hong , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Guoying Zhao

Facial micro-expressions, characterized by their subtle and brief nature, are valuable indicators of genuine emotions. Despite their significance in psychology, security, and behavioral analysis, micro-expression recognition remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Thi Duyen Ngo , Thanh Ha Le

Facial expression is a standout amongst the most imperative features of human emotion recognition. For demonstrating the emotional states facial expressions are utilized by the people. In any case, recognition of facial expressions has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 S. D. Lalitha , K. K. Thyagharajan

Micro-Expression (ME) is the spontaneous, involuntary movement of a face that can reveal the true feeling. Recently, increasing researches have paid attention to this field combing deep learning techniques. Action units (AUs) are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ling Lo , Hong-Xia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Micro-expressions are brief and subtle facial movements that convey nuanced affective information but often remain imperceptible during natural social interaction. Although prior research has primarily focused on computational recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Feiyang Yin , Isidro Butaslac , Patrick Gebhard , Monica Perusquia-Hernandez , Zhaofeng Niu , Taishi Sawabe , Hirokazu Kato

In recent years, extensive research has emerged in affective computing on topics like automatic emotion recognition and determining the signals that characterize individual emotions. Much less studied, however, is expressiveness, or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Victoria Lin , Jeffrey M. Girard , Louis-Philippe Morency

Deep convolutional neural networks have been shown to successfully recognize facial emotions for the past years in the realm of computer vision. However, the existing detection approaches are not always reliable or explainable, we here…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jiawen Wang , Leah Kawka

Micro-expression recognition plays a pivotal role in understanding hidden emotions and has applications across various fields. Traditional recognition methods assume access to all training data at once, but real-world scenarios involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhengqin Lai , Xiaopeng Hong , Yabin Wang , Xiaobai Li

This paper does not contain technical novelty but introduces our key discoveries in a data generation protocol, a database and insights. We aim to address the lack of large-scale datasets in micro-expression (MiE) recognition due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yuchi Liu , Zhongdao Wang , Tom Gedeon , Liang Zheng

Throughout the past decade, many studies have classified human emotions using only a single sensing modality such as face video, electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response (GSR), etc. The results of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Siddharth Siddharth , Tzyy-Ping Jung , Terrence J. Sejnowski

Facial micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements of the face that occur spontaneously when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to suppress or repress the facial expression, typically found in a high-stakes environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Wen-Huang Cheng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davision

Automated facial expression analysis has a variety of applications in human-computer interaction. Traditional methods mainly analyze prototypical facial expressions of no more than eight discrete emotions as a classification task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Feng Zhou , Shu Kong , Charless Fowlkes , Tao Chen , Baiying Lei

Facial Action Coding System consists of 44 action units (AUs) and more than 7000 combinations. Hidden Markov models (HMMs) classifier has been used successfully to recognize facial action units (AUs) and expressions due to its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Mohammad H. Kiapour , Ali A. Kiaei

Facial expressions convey human emotions and can be categorized into macro-expressions (MaEs) and micro-expressions (MiEs) based on duration and intensity. While MaEs are voluntary and easily recognized, MiEs are involuntary, rapid, and can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zixuan Shangguan , Yanjie Dong , Song Guo , Victor C. M. Leung , M. Jamal Deen , Xiping Hu

Facial micro-expressions are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal hidden emotions. Most Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) methods that rely on optical flow typically focus on the onset-to-apex phase, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Facial expression spotting is the preliminary step for micro- and macro-expression analysis. The task of reliably spotting such expressions in video sequences is currently unsolved. The current best systems depend upon optical flow methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Chuin Hong Yap , Moi Hoon Yap , Adrian K. Davison , Connah Kendrick , Jingting Li , Sujing Wang , Ryan Cunningham

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