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Facial action unit (AU) detection is a fundamental block for objective facial expression analysis. Supervised learning approaches require a large amount of manual labeling which is costly. The limited labeled data are also not diverse in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liupei Lu , Yufeng Yin , Yuming Gu , Yizhen Wu , Pratusha Prasad , Yajie Zhao , Mohammad Soleymani

Daily monitoring of intra-personal facial changes associated with health and emotional conditions has great potential to be useful for medical, healthcare, and emotion recognition fields. However, the approach for capturing intra-personal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yusuke Akamatsu , Terumi Umematsu , Hitoshi Imaoka , Shizuko Gomi , Hideo Tsurushima

Recent works have shown how realistic talking face images can be obtained under the supervision of geometry guidance, e.g., facial landmark or boundary. To alleviate the demand for manual annotations, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xianfang Zeng , Yusu Pan , Mengmeng Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Yong Liu

Facial expression synthesis aims to generate realistic facial expressions while preserving identity. Existing conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) achieve excellent image-to-image translation results, but their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Arbish Akram , Nazar Khan , Arif Mahmood

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task due to two major problems: the presence of inter-subject variations in facial expression recognition dataset and impure expressions posed by human subjects. In this paper we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kamran Ali , Ilkin Isler , Charles Hughes

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

In this paper, we explore the task of generating photo-realistic face images from lines. Previous methods based on conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) have shown their power to generate visually plausible images when a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Yuhang Li , Xuejin Chen , Feng Wu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Deep learning vision models excel with abundant supervision, but many applications face label scarcity and class imbalance. Controllable image editing can augment scarce labeled data, yet edits often introduce artifacts and entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joris Kirchner , Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Chirag Raman

We present a single-image 3D face synthesis technique that can handle challenging facial expressions while recovering fine geometric details. Our technique employs expression analysis for proxy face geometry generation and combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Anpei Chen , Zhang Chen , Guli Zhang , Ziheng Zhang , Kenny Mitchell , Jingyi Yu

Critical obstacles in training classifiers to detect facial actions are the limited sizes of annotated video databases and the relatively low frequencies of occurrence of many actions. To address these problems, we propose an approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Koichiro Niinuma , Itir Onal Ertugrul , Jeffrey F Cohn , László A Jeni

3D face modeling has been an active area of research in computer vision and computer graphics, fueling applications ranging from facial expression transfer in virtual avatars to synthetic data generation. Existing 3D deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Fariborz Taherkhani , Aashish Rai , Quankai Gao , Shaunak Srivastava , Xuanbai Chen , Fernando de la Torre , Steven Song , Aayush Prakash , Daeil Kim

We propose a framework based on Generative Adversarial Networks to disentangle the identity and attributes of faces, such that we can conveniently recombine different identities and attributes for identity preserving face synthesis in open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Houqiang Li , Gang Hua

Different people have different facial expressions while speaking emotionally. A realistic facial animation system should consider such identity-specific speaking styles and facial idiosyncrasies to achieve high-degree of naturalness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Elif Bozkurt

Synthesis of face images from visual attributes is an important problem in computer vision and biometrics due to its applications in law enforcement and entertainment. Recent advances in deep generative networks have made it possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xing Di , Vishal M. Patel

Facial Appearance Editing (FAE) aims to modify physical attributes, such as pose, expression and lighting, of human facial images while preserving attributes like identity and background, showing great importance in photograph. In spite of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Qilin Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Chengming Xu , Weijian Cao , Ying Tai , Yue Han , Yanhao Ge , Hong Gu , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) provide an attractive solution to image generation problem. However, they tend to produce blurred and over-smoothed images due to their dependence on pixel-wise reconstruction loss. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Nick Barnes

Dynamic facial expression recognition has many useful applications in social networks, multimedia content analysis, security systems and others. This challenging process must be done under recurrent problems of image illumination and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ali Raza Shahid , Sheheryar Khan , Hong Yan

Manipulating facial expressions is a challenging task due to fine-grained shape changes produced by facial muscles and the lack of input-output pairs for supervised learning. Unlike previous methods using Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Rumeysa Bodur , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

The advance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) enables realistic face image synthesis. However, synthesizing face images that preserve facial identity as well as have high diversity within each identity remains challenging. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou , Ping Luo , Xiaoou Tang

Facial expression perception in humans inherently relies on prior knowledge and contextual cues, contributing to efficient and flexible processing. For instance, multi-modal emotional context (such as voice color, affective text, body pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Florian Blume , Runfeng Qu , Pia Bideau , Martin Maier , Rasha Abdel Rahman , Olaf Hellwich