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With wearing masks becoming a new cultural norm, facial expression recognition (FER) while taking masks into account has become a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a unified multi-branch vision transformer for facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Armando Zhu , Keqin Li , Tong Wu , Peng Zhao , Bo Hong

Facial expressions play a significant role in human communication and behavior. Psychologists have long studied the relationship between facial expressions and emotions. Paul Ekman et al., devised the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Ran Breuer , Ron Kimmel

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition(DFER) is a rapidly evolving field of research that focuses on the recognition of time-series facial expressions. While previous research on DFER has concentrated on feature learning from a deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Feng Liu , Lingna Gu , Chen Shi , Xiaolan Fu

Facial expression recognition is an important research direction in the field of artificial intelligence. Although new breakthroughs have been made in recent years, the uneven distribution of datasets and the similarity between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bingyu Nan , Feng Liu , Xuezhong Qian , Wei Song

The ever-increasing demands for intuitive interactions in Virtual Reality has triggered a boom in the realm of Facial Expression Recognition (FER). To address the limitations in existing approaches (e.g., narrow receptive fields and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yande Li , Mingjie Wang , Minglun Gong , Yonggang Lu , Li Liu

Most existing compound facial expression recognition (FER) methods rely on large-scale labeled compound expression data for training. However, collecting such data is labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xinyi Zou , Yan Yan , Jing-Hao Xue , Si Chen , Hanzi Wang

We have developed convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a facial expression recognition task. The goal is to classify each facial image into one of the seven facial emotion categories considered in this study. We trained CNN models with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Shima Alizadeh , Azar Fazel

In this paper, we present a unified architecture known as Transfer-Editing and Recognition Generative Adversarial Network (TER-GAN) which can be used: 1. to transfer facial expressions from one identity to another identity, known as Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Despite the success of deep neural networks on facial action unit (AU) detection, better performance depends on a large number of training images with accurate AU annotations. However, labeling AU is time-consuming, expensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yong Li , Shiguang Shan

Wearing a face mask is one of the adjustments we had to follow to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Having our faces covered by masks constantly has driven the need to understand and investigate how this behavior affects the recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mohammed R. Al-Sinan , Aseel F. Haneef , Hamzah Luqman

Student expression recognition has become an essential tool for assessing learning experiences and emotional states. This paper introduces xLSTM-FER, a novel architecture derived from the Extended Long Short-Term Memory (xLSTM), designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Qionghao Huang , Jili Chen

Despite being the appearance-based classifier of choice in recent years, relatively few works have examined how much convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can improve performance on accepted expression recognition benchmarks and, more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Pooya Khorrami , Tom Le Paine , Thomas S. Huang

Fully connected layer is an essential component of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which demonstrates its efficiency in computer vision tasks. The CNN process usually starts with convolution and pooling layers that first break down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 M. Amine Mahmoudi , Aladine Chetouani , Fatma Boufera , Hedi Tabia

Transfer learning using pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been successfully applied to images for different classification tasks. In this paper, we propose a new pipeline for pain expression recognition in neonates using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Ghada Zamzmi , Dmitry Goldgof , Rangachar Kasturi , Yu Sun

Several machine learning techniques for accurate detection of skin cancer from medical images have been reported. Many of these techniques are based on pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which enable training the models based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Aqsa Saeed Qureshi , Teemu Roos

Unlike typical video action recognition, Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) does not involve distinct moving targets but relies on localized changes in facial muscles. Addressing this distinctive attribute, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Linhuang Wang , Xin Kang , Fei Ding , Satoshi Nakagawa , Fuji Ren

In this paper, we propose an approach for Facial Expressions Recognition (FER) based on a deep multi-facial patches aggregation network. Deep features are learned from facial patches using deep sub-networks and aggregated within one deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ahmed Rachid Hazourli , Amine Djeghri , Hanan Salam , Alice Othmani

This work describes different strategies to generate unsupervised representations obtained through the concept of self-taught learning for facial emotion recognition (FER). The idea is to create complementary representations promoting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Bruna Delazeri , Leonardo L. Veras , Alceu de S. Britto , Jean Paul Barddal , Alessandro L. Koerich

Facial expression recognition is a topic of great interest in most fields from artificial intelligence and gaming to marketing and healthcare. The goal of this paper is to classify images of human faces into one of seven basic emotions. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Akash Saravanan , Gurudutt Perichetla , K. S. Gayathri

One of the most universal ways that people communicate is through facial expressions. In this paper, we take a deep dive, implementing multiple deep learning models for facial expression recognition (FER). Our goals are twofold: we aim not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Amil Khanzada , Charles Bai , Ferhat Turker Celepcikay