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We provide a new non-invasive, easy-to-scale for large amounts of subjects and a remotely accessible method for (hidden) emotion detection from videos of human faces. Our approach combines face manifold detection for accurate location of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Juni Kim , Zhikang Dong , Eric Guan , Judah Rosenthal , Shi Fu , Miriam Rafailovich , Pawel Polak

Micro-expressions are brief, involuntary facial movements that typically last less than half a second and often reveal genuine emotions. Accurately recognizing these subtle expressions is critical for applications in psychology, security,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Facial expression is related to facial muscle contractions and different muscle movements correspond to different emotional states. For micro-expression recognition, the muscle movements are usually subtle, which has a negative impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Automated human emotion recognition from facial expressions is a well-studied problem and still remains a very challenging task. Some efficient or accurate deep learning models have been presented in the literature. However, it is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Monu Verma , Murari Mandal , Satish Kumar Reddy , Yashwanth Reddy Meedimale , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Micro-expressions, characterized by transience and subtlety, pose challenges to existing optical flow-based recognition methods. To address this, this paper proposes a dual-branch micro-expression feature extraction network integrated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mingjie Zhang , Bo Li , Wanting Liu , Hongyan Cui , Yue Li , Qingwen Li , Hong Li , Ge Gao

Facial micro-expressions are subtle and involuntary expressions that can reveal concealed emotions. Micro-expressions are an invaluable source of information in application domains such as lie detection, mental health, sentiment analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Michiel Verburg , Vlado Menkovski

One of the most important subconscious reactions, micro-expression (ME), is a spontaneous, subtle, and transient facial expression that reveals human beings' genuine emotion. Therefore, automatically recognizing ME (MER) is becoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sirui Zhao , Huaying Tang , Xinglong Mao , Shifeng Liu , Yiming Zhang , Hao Wang , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging task, due to the transience, subtlety, and dynamics of micro-expressions (MEs). Most existing methods resort to hand-crafted features or deep networks, in which the former often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Fan Zhang , Xuehuai Shi , Canlin Li , Lizhuang Ma , Dit-yan Yeung

Micro-facial expressions are regarded as an important human behavioural event that can highlight emotional deception. Spotting these movements is difficult for humans and machines, however research into using computer vision to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Adrian K. Davison , Cliff Lansley , Choon Ching Ng , Kevin Tan , Moi Hoon Yap

Recognition of human emotions from the imaging templates is useful in a wide variety of human-computer interaction and intelligent systems applications. However, the automatic recognition of facial expressions using image template matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Olga Krestinskaya , Alex Pappachen James

Emotion recognition in children can help the early identification of, and intervention on, psychological complications that arise in stressful situations such as cancer treatment. Though deep learning models are increasingly being adopted,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Marco Virgolin , Andrea De Lorenzo , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Micro-expression recognition is vital for affective computing but remains challenging due to the extremely brief, low-intensity facial motions involved and the high-dimensional nature of 4D mesh data. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Luu Tu Nguyen , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Depression is a common mental health disorder that can cause consequential symptoms with continuously depressed mood that leads to emotional distress. One category of depression is Concealed Depression, where patients intentionally or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xiaohui Chen , Tie Luo

Micro-expressions are brief and subtle facial expressions that go on and off the face in a fraction of a second. This kind of facial expressions usually occurs in high stake situations and is considered to reflect a human's real intent.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Carlos Arango Duque , Olivier Alata , Rémi Emonet , Hubert Konik , Anne-Claire Legrand

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

Micro-expressions are hard to spot due to fleeting and involuntary moments of facial muscles. Interpretation of micro emotions from video clips is a challenging task. In this paper we propose an affective-motion imaging that cumulates rapid…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary and subtle facial expressions that are thought to reveal feelings people are trying to hide. ME spotting detects the temporal intervals containing MEs in videos. Detecting such quick and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yini Fang , Didan Deng , Liang Wu , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Deepfake detection research has largely converged on deep learning approaches that, despite strong benchmark performance, offer limited insight into what distinguishes real from manipulated facial behavior. This study presents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Timothy Joseph Murphy , Jennifer Cook , Hélio Clemente José Cuve

Facial Expression Recognition is an active area of research in computer vision with a wide range of applications. Several approaches have been developed to solve this problem for different benchmark datasets. However, Facial Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Abubakrelsedik Karali , Ahmad Bassiouny , Motaz El-Saban

This paper discusses the benefits of incorporating multimodal data for improving latent emotion recognition accuracy, focusing on micro-expression (ME) and physiological signals (PS). The proposed approach presents a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Liangfei Zhang , Yifei Qian , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Anthony Zhu