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Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) requires to predict the action of a person based on sensor-generated time series data. HAR has attracted major interest in the past few years, thanks to the large number of applications enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Davide Buffelli , Fabio Vandin

Facial expression recognition has been an active research area over the past few decades, and it is still challenging due to the high intra-class variation. Traditional approaches for this problem rely on hand-crafted features such as SIFT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi

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 action unit detection has emerged as an important task within facial expression analysis, aimed at detecting specific pre-defined, objective facial expressions, such as lip tightening and cheek raising. This paper presents our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yufeng Yin , Minh Tran , Di Chang , Xinrui Wang , Mohammad Soleymani

Automatic detection of facial Action Units (AUs) allows for objective facial expression analysis. Due to the high cost of AU labeling and the limited size of existing benchmarks, previous AU detection methods tend to overfit the dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yufeng Yin , Di Chang , Guoxian Song , Shen Sang , Tiancheng Zhi , Jing Liu , Linjie Luo , Mohammad Soleymani

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based approach for facial action unit detection by enhancing and cropping the regions of interest. The approach is implemented by adding two novel nets (layers): the enhancing layers and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Wei Li , Farnaz Abtahi , Zhigang Zhu , Lijun Yin

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

Recognizing the expressions of partially occluded faces is a challenging computer vision problem. Previous expression recognition methods, either overlooked this issue or resolved it using extreme assumptions. Motivated by the fact that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hui Ding , Peng Zhou , Rama Chellappa

In recent years, face recognition systems have achieved exceptional success due to promising advances in deep learning architectures. However, they still fail to achieve expected accuracy when matching profile images against a gallery of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Moktari Mostofa , Mohammad Saeed Ebrahimi Saadabadi , Sahar Rahimi Malakshan , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Distributed radar sensors enable robust human activity recognition. However, scaling the number of coordinated nodes introduces challenges in feature extraction from large datasets, and transparent data fusion. We propose an end-to-end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Mina Shahbazifar , Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi , Vahid Jamali

Detecting action units is an important task in face analysis, especially in facial expression recognition. This is due, in part, to the idea that expressions can be decomposed into multiple action units. In this paper we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Saurabh Hinduja , Shaun Canavan , Saandeep Aathreya

This paper tackles the challenging problem of estimating the intensity of Facial Action Units with few labeled images. Contrary to previous works, our method does not require to manually select key frames, and produces state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Anestis Zaganidis , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Facial action unit (AU) intensity is an index to describe all visually discernible facial movements. Most existing methods learn intensity estimator with limited AU data, while they lack generalization ability out of the dataset. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Xinhui Song , Tianyang Shi , Zunlei Feng , Mingli Song , Jackie Lin , Chuanjie Lin , Changjie Fan , Yi Yuan

Facial action units (AUs) recognition is essential for emotion analysis and has been widely applied in mental state analysis. Existing work on AU recognition usually requires big face dataset with AU labels; however, manual AU annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xuesong Niu , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Detecting manipulated facial images and videos is an increasingly important topic in digital media forensics. As advanced face synthesis and manipulation methods are made available, new types of fake face representations are being created…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Hao Dang , Feng Liu , Joel Stehouwer , Xiaoming Liu , Anil Jain

The automatic intensity estimation of facial action units (AUs) from a single image plays a vital role in facial analysis systems. One big challenge for data-driven AU intensity estimation is the lack of sufficient AU label data. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Xinhui Song , Tianyang Shi , Tianjia Shao , Yi Yuan , Zunlei Feng , Changjie Fan

Facial action units (FAUs) are critical for fine-grained facial expression analysis. Although FAU detection has been actively studied using ideally high quality images, it was not thoroughly studied under heavily occluded conditions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Minyang Jiang , Yongwei Wang , Martin J. McKeown , Z. Jane Wang

The domain diversities including inconsistent annotation and varied image collection conditions inevitably exist among different facial expression recognition (FER) datasets, which pose an evident challenge for adapting the FER model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Kai Wang , Yuxin Gu , Xiaojiang Peng , Panpan Zhang , Baigui Sun , Hao Li

Machine learning models automatically learn discriminative features from the data, and are therefore susceptible to learn strongly-correlated biases, such as using protected attributes like gender and race. Most existing bias mitigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Varsha Suresh , Desmond C. Ong

Facial action unit (AU) recognition is a crucial task for facial expressions analysis and has attracted extensive attention in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. Existing works have either focused on designing or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Guanbin Li , Xin Zhu , Yirui Zeng , Qing Wang , Liang Lin