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Understanding the facial expressions of our interlocutor is important to enrich the communication and to give it a depth that goes beyond the explicitly expressed. In fact, studying one's facial expression gives insight into their hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Rim EL Cheikh , Hélène Tran , Issam Falih , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Action Unit (AU) detection plays an important role for facial expression recognition. To the best of our knowledge, there is little research about AU analysis for micro-expressions. In this paper, we focus on AU detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yante Li , Xiaohua Huang , Guoying Zhao

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is a task that estimates emotions from facial expression video sequences. For practical applications, accurately recognizing ambiguous facial expressions -- frequently encountered in in-the-wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ryosuke Kawamura , Hideaki Hayashi , Shunsuke Otake , Noriko Takemura , Hajime Nagahara

In many domains, including online education, healthcare, security, and human-computer interaction, facial emotion recognition (FER) is essential. Real-world FER is still difficult despite its significance because of some factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Deeptimaan Banerjee , Prateek Gothwal , Ashis Kumer Biswas

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) extracts emotions from multimodal data, including visual, speech, and text inputs, playing a key role in human-computer interaction. Attention-based fusion methods dominate MER research, achieving strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiajun He , Jinyi Mi , Tomoki Toda

Facial expression recognition (FER) is vital for human-computer interaction and emotion analysis, yet recognizing expressions in low-resolution images remains challenging. This paper introduces a practical method called Dynamic Resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Songpan Wang , Xu Li , Tianxiang Jiang , Yuanlun Xie

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging task due to the subtle and fleeting nature of micro-expressions. Traditional input modalities, such as Apex Frame, Optical Flow, and Dynamic Image, often fail to adequately capture these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

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

Micro expression recognition (MER) is a very challenging area of research due to its intrinsic nature and fine-grained changes. In the literature, the problem of MER has been solved through handcrafted/descriptor-based techniques. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

Compound Expression Recognition (CER) is crucial for understanding human emotions and improving human-computer interaction. However, CER faces challenges due to the complexity of facial expressions and the difficulty of capturing subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jun Yu , Xilong Lu

The detection of micro-expression Action Units (AUs) is a formidable challenge in affective computing, pivotal for decoding subtle, involuntary human emotions. While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate profound reasoning abilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhishu Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Bo Zhao , Yong Xu , Zitong Yu

Capsule neural network is a new and popular technique in deep learning. However, the traditional capsule neural network does not extract features sufficiently before the dynamic routing between the capsules. In this paper, the one Double…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Shan Cao , Yuqian Yao , Gaoyun An

Over the centuries, humans have developed and acquired a number of ways to communicate. But hardly any of them can be as natural and instinctive as facial expressions. On the other hand, neural networks have taken the world by storm. And no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Subodh Lonkar

Owing to the development and advancement of artificial intelligence, numerous works were established in the human facial expression recognition system. Meanwhile, the detection and classification of micro-expressions are attracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Sze-Teng Liong , Y. S. Gan , Danna Zheng , Shu-Meng Lic , Hao-Xuan Xua , Han-Zhe Zhang , Ran-Ke Lyu , Kun-Hong Liu

Optical strain is an extension of optical flow that is capable of quantifying subtle changes on faces and representing the minute facial motion intensities at the pixel level. This is computationally essential for the relatively new field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Sze-Teng Liong , John See , Raphael Chung-Wei Phan , Yee-Hui Oh , Anh Cat Le Ngo , KokSheik Wong , Su-Wei Tan

In this paper, a face emotion is considered as the result of the composition of multiple concurrent signals, each corresponding to the movements of a specific facial muscle. These concurrent signals are represented by means of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Liliana Lo Presti , Marco La Cascia

Facial expression recognition in videos is an active area of research in computer vision. However, fake facial expressions are difficult to be recognized even by humans. On the other hand, facial micro-expressions generally represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Surya Teja Karri , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

Facial micro-expression (ME) recognition has posed a huge challenge to researchers for its subtlety in motion and limited databases. Recently, handcrafted techniques have achieved superior performance in micro-expression recognition but at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Huai-Qian Khor , John See , Raphael C. W. Phan , Weiyao Lin

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

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

With the transition of facial expression recognition (FER) from laboratory-controlled to challenging in-the-wild conditions and the recent success of deep learning techniques in various fields, deep neural networks have increasingly been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Shan Li , Weihong Deng