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This paper presents baseline results for the Third Facial Micro-Expression Grand Challenge (MEGC 2020). Both macro- and micro-expression intervals in CAS(ME)$^2$ and SAMM Long Videos are spotted by employing the method of Main Directional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Ying He , Su-Jing Wang , Jingting Li , Moi Hoon Yap

As a spontaneous expression of emotion on face, micro-expression reveals the underlying emotion that cannot be controlled by human. In micro-expression, facial movement is transient and sparsely localized through time. However, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Tao Bi , Tong Chen , Yu Shi , Xiang-Dong Zhou

Micro-expression, for its high objectivity in emotion detection, has emerged to be a promising modality in affective computing. Recently, deep learning methods have been successfully introduced into the micro-expression recognition area.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Chongyang Wang , Min Peng , Tao Bi , Tong Chen

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief and involuntary facial expressions that occur when people are trying to hide their true feelings or conceal their emotions. Based on psychology research, MEs play an important role in understanding genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Thuong-Khanh Tran , Quang-Nhat Vo , Xiaopeng Hong , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

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 micro-expressions are sudden involuntary minute muscle movements which reveal true emotions that people try to conceal. Spotting a micro-expression and recognizing it is a major challenge owing to its short duration and intensity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sauradip Nag , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aishik Konwer , Partha Pratim Roy

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

With the growth of popularity of facial micro-expressions in recent years, the demand for long videos with micro- and macro-expressions remains high. Extended from SAMM, a micro-expressions dataset released in 2016, this paper presents SAMM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Chuin Hong Yap , Connah Kendrick , Moi Hoon Yap

Facial expression spotting, identifying periods where facial expressions occur in a video, is a significant yet challenging task in facial expression analysis. The issues of irrelevant facial movements and the challenge of detecting subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yicheng Deng , Hideaki Hayashi , Hajime Nagahara

Facial expression spotting is a significant but challenging task in facial expression analysis. The accuracy of expression spotting is affected not only by irrelevant facial movements but also by the difficulty of perceiving subtle motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yicheng Deng , Hideaki Hayashi , Hajime Nagahara

Recently, the recognition task of spontaneous facial micro-expressions has attracted much attention with its various real-world applications. Plenty of handcrafted or learned features have been employed for a variety of classifiers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaopeng Hong , Xingyu Gao , Xiaoyi Feng , Guoying Zhao

Motion representation plays a vital role in human action recognition in videos. In this study, we introduce a novel compact motion representation for video action recognition, named Optical Flow guided Feature (OFF), which enables the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Wanli Ouyang , Lu Sheng , Wei Zhang

Micro-facial expressions are brief and involuntary facial movements that reflect genuine emotional states. While most prior work focuses on classifying discrete micro-expression categories, far fewer studies address the continuous evolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Riyadh Mohammed Almushrafy

Unlike prevalent facial expressions, micro expressions have subtle, involuntary muscle movements which are short-lived in nature. These minute muscle movements reflect true emotions of a person. Due to the short duration and low intensity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh , Subrahmanyam Murala

Optical flow techniques are becoming increasingly performant and robust when estimating motion in a scene, but their performance has yet to be proven in the area of facial expression recognition. In this work, a variety of optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Benjamin Allaert , Isaac Ronald Ward , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Chaabane Djeraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

Micro-expressions are subtle facial movements that occur spontaneously when people try to conceal real emotions. Micro-expression recognition is crucial in many fields, including criminal analysis and psychotherapy. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Guanghao Zhu , Lin Liu , Yuhao Hu , Haixin Sun , Fang Liu , Xiaohui Du , Ruqian Hao , Juanxiu Liu , Yong Liu , Hao Deng , Jing Zhang

Facial micro-expressions recognition has attracted much attention recently. Micro-expressions have the characteristics of short duration and low intensity, and it is difficult to train a high-performance classifier with the limited number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yanxin Song , Jianzong Wang , Tianbo Wu , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

Micro-expression has emerged as a promising modality in affective computing due to its high objectivity in emotion detection. Despite the higher recognition accuracy provided by the deep learning models, there are still significant scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

Micro-expressions (MEs), brief and low-intensity facial movements revealing concealed emotions, are crucial for affective computing. Despite notable progress in ME recognition, existing methods are largely confined to discrete emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sirui Zhao , Zhengye Zhang , Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Shukang Yin , Chaoyou Fu , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

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