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Facial expression recognition is a challenging classification task that holds broad application prospects in the field of human-computer interaction. This paper aims to introduce the method we will adopt in the 8th Affective and Behavioral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jun Yu , Yang Zheng , Lei Wang , Yongqi Wang , Shengfan Xu

Compared with facial emotion recognition on categorical model, the dimensional emotion recognition can describe numerous emotions of the real world more accurately. Most prior works of dimensional emotion estimation only considered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Xiaohua Wang , Muzi Peng , Lijuan Pan , Min Hu , Chunhua Jin , Fuji Ren

The importance of automated Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) grows the more common human-machine interactions become, which will only continue to increase dramatically with time. A common method to describe human sentiment or feeling is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Carl Norman

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a fine-grained visual understanding task where reliable predictions require reasoning over localized and meaningful facial cues. Recent vision--language models (VLMs) enable natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Haobo Lin , Tianyi Bai , Jiajun Zhang , Xuanhao Chang , Sheng Lu , Fangming Gu , Zengjie Hu , Wentao Zhang

The in-the-wild affective behavior analysis has been an important study. In this paper, we submit our solutions for the 5th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW), which includes V-A Estimation, Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Peng Zou , Rui Wang , Kehua Wen , Yasi Peng , Xiao Sun

Some of the most severe bottlenecks preventing widespread development of machine learning models for human behavior include a dearth of labeled training data and difficulty of acquiring high quality labels. Active learning is a paradigm for…

This paper describes an approach to the facial action units detections. The involved action units (AU) include AU1 (Inner Brow Raiser), AU2 (Outer Brow Raiser), AU4 (Brow Lowerer), AU6 (Cheek Raise), AU12 (Lip Corner Puller), AU15 (Lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Xianpeng Ji , Yu Ding , Lincheng Li , Yu Chen , Changjie Fan

The fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition has multiple challenges such as Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge, Expression Classification Challenge, Action Unit Detection Challenge, Emotional Reaction Intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Darshan Gera , Badveeti Naveen Siva Kumar , Bobbili Veerendra Raj Kumar , S Balasubramanian

Facial Expression Recognition(FER) is one of the most important topic in Human-Computer interactions(HCI). In this work we report details and experimental results about a facial expression recognition method based on state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Donato Cafarelli , Fabio Valerio Massoli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

This paper introduces our approach to the EmotioNet Challenge 2020. We pose the AU recognition problem as a multi-task learning problem, where the non-rigid facial muscle motion (mainly the first 17 AUs) and the rigid head motion (the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Pengcheng Wang , Zihao Wang , Zhilong Ji , Xiao Liu , Songfan Yang , Zhongqin Wu

Facial Action Coding System is an approach for modeling the complexity of human emotional expression. Automatic action unit (AU) detection is a crucial research area in human-computer interaction. This paper describes our submission to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Duy Le Hoai , Eunchae Lim , Eunbin Choi , Sieun Kim , Sudarshan Pant , Guee-Sang Lee , Soo-Huyng Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in our daily life, the ability to recognize and adapt to human emotions is essential for effective human-computer interaction. Facial expression recognition (FER) provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thibault Geoffroy , Myriam Maumy , Lionel Prevost

This paper describes the 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition, which is part of the respective Workshop held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2024. The 6th ABAW Competition addresses contemporary challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Dimitrios Kollias , Panagiotis Tzirakis , Alan Cowen , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Irene Kotsia , Alice Baird , Chris Gagne , Chunchang Shao , Guanyu Hu

Facial affective behavior analysis (FABA) is crucial for understanding human mental states from images. However, traditional approaches primarily deploy models to discriminate among discrete emotion categories, and lack the fine granularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yifan Li , Anh Dao , Wentao Bao , Zhen Tan , Tianlong Chen , Huan Liu , Yu Kong

Facial expressions are combinations of basic components called Action Units (AU). Recognizing AUs is key for developing general facial expression analysis. In recent years, most efforts in automatic AU recognition have been dedicated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Ciprian A. Corneanu , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

Automatically understanding and recognising human affective states using images and computer vision can improve human-computer and human-robot interaction. However, privacy has become an issue of great concern, as the identities of people…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jimiama M. Mase , Natalie Leesakul , Fan Yang , Grazziela P. Figueredo , Mercedes Torres Torres

This paper presents a novel CNN-RNN based approach, which exploits multiple CNN features for dimensional emotion recognition in-the-wild, utilizing the One-Minute Gradual-Emotion (OMG-Emotion) dataset. Our approach includes first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Emotion recognition is a classic field of research with a typical setup extracting features and feeding them through a classifier for prediction. On the other hand, generative models jointly capture the distributional relationship between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Saurabh Sahu , Rahul Gupta , Carol Espy-Wilson

Facial expression synthesis or editing has recently received increasing attention in the field of affective computing and facial expression modeling. However, most existing facial expression synthesis works are limited in paired training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Zhilei Liu , Diyi Liu , Yunpeng Wu

Action Unit (AU) Detection is the branch of affective computing that aims at recognizing unitary facial muscular movements. It is key to unlock unbiased computational face representations and has therefore aroused great interest in the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Gauthier Tallec , Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly