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Deep neural networks enriched with structural information have been widely employed for facial expression recognition tasks. However, these methods often depend on hierarchical information rather than face property to finish expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Chunwei Tian , Jingyuan Xie , Qi Zhang , Chao Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shichao Zhang

Facial expression recognition (FER) systems in low-resolution settings face significant challenges in accurately identifying expressions due to the loss of fine-grained facial details. This limitation is especially problematic for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Soham Kumar , Aryan Seth , Pratik Narang

SOTA facial expression recognition (FER) methods fail on test sets that have domain gaps with the train set. Recent domain adaptation FER methods need to acquire labeled or unlabeled samples of target domains to fine-tune the FER model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yuhang Zhang , Xiuqi Zheng , Chenyi Liang , Jiani Hu , Weihong Deng

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

Facial expression recognition (FER) aims to analyze emotional states from static images and dynamic sequences, which is pivotal in enhancing anthropomorphic communication among humans, robots, and digital avatars by leveraging AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yan Wang , Shaoqi Yan , Yang Liu , Wei Song , Jing Liu , Yang Chang , Xinji Mai , Xiping Hu , Wenqiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

This paper proposes a feature-based domain adaptation technique for identifying emotions in generic images, encompassing both facial and non-facial objects, as well as non-human components. This approach addresses the challenge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Puneet Kumar , Balasubramanian Raman

We present a novel approach to mitigate bias in facial expression recognition (FER) models. Our method aims to reduce sensitive attribute information such as gender, age, or race, in the embeddings produced by FER models. We employ a kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Mojtaba Kolahdouzi , Ali Etemad

Due to the subjective crowdsourcing annotations and the inherent inter-class similarity of facial expressions, the real-world Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets usually exhibit ambiguous annotation. To simplify the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Weijie Wang , Bo Li , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

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

Micro-expression recognition (MER), a critical subfield of affective computing, presents greater challenges than macro-expression recognition due to its brief duration and low intensity. While incorporating prior knowledge has been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Chuang Ma , Shaokai Zhao , Dongdong Zhou , Yu Pei , Zhiguo Luo , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Facial expressions of emotion are a major channel in our daily communications, and it has been subject of intense research in recent years. To automatically infer facial expressions, convolutional neural network based approaches has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Bita Houshmand , Naimul Khan

Understanding human affective behaviour, especially in the dynamics of real-world settings, requires Facial Expression Recognition (FER) models to continuously adapt to individual differences in user expression, contextual attributions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Nikhil Churamani , Tolga Dimlioglu , German I. Parisi , Hatice Gunes

In this paper, we present a process to investigate the effects of transfer learning for automatic facial expression recognition from emotions to pain. To this end, we first train a VGG16 convolutional neural network to automatically discern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Pooja Prajod , Dominik Schiller , Tobias Huber , Elisabeth André

Temporal information can provide useful features for recognizing facial expressions. However, to manually design useful features requires a lot of effort. In this paper, to reduce this effort, a deep learning technique which is regarded as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Heechul Jung , Sihaeng Lee , Sunjeong Park , Injae Lee , Chunghyun Ahn , Junmo Kim

The paper describes our proposed methodology for the seven basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2021. In this task, facial expression recognition (FER) methods aim to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shuyi Mao , Xinqi Fan , Xiaojiang Peng

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) plays a pivotal role in understanding human emotional cues. However, traditional FER methods based on visual information have some limitations, such as preprocessing, feature extraction, and multi-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Hui Ma , Sen Lei , Turgay Celik , Heng-Chao Li

We describe a deep learning based method for estimating 3D facial expression coefficients. Unlike previous work, our process does not relay on facial landmark detection methods as a proxy step. Recent methods have shown that a CNN can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Feng-Ju Chang , Anh Tuan Tran , Tal Hassner , Iacopo Masi , Ram Nevatia , Gerard Medioni

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

Emotion being a subjective thing, leveraging knowledge and science behind labeled data and extracting the components that constitute it, has been a challenging problem in the industry for many years. With the evolution of deep learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Prudhvi Raj Dachapally

Facial expressions recognition (FER) of 3D face scans has received a significant amount of attention in recent years. Most of the facial expression recognition methods have been proposed using mainly 2D images. These methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Walid Hariri , Nadir Farah , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma