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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

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

Facial expressions play an important role in conveying the emotional states of human beings. Recently, deep learning approaches have been applied to image recognition field due to the discriminative power of Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yingruo Fan , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li

Facial expression is temporally dynamic event which can be decomposed into a set of muscle motions occurring in different facial regions over various time intervals. For dynamic expression recognition, two key issues, temporal alignment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Mengyi Liu , Shiguang Shan , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

Multi-view facial expression recognition (FER) is a challenging task because the appearance of an expression varies in poses. To alleviate the influences of poses, recent methods either perform pose normalization or learn separate FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuanyuan Liu , Jiyao Peng , Jiabei Zeng , Shiguang Shan

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary facial movements revealing people's hidden feelings in high-stake situations and have practical importance in medical treatment, national security, interrogations and many human-computer interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yante Li , Jinsheng Wei , Yang Liu , Janne Kauttonen , Guoying Zhao

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

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

Emotional expressions are the behaviors that communicate our emotional state or attitude to others. They are expressed through verbal and non-verbal communication. Complex human behavior can be understood by studying physical features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani , Hazem Abdelkawy

Micro-expression recognition is one of the most challenging topics in affective computing. It aims to recognize tiny facial movements difficult for humans to perceive in a brief period, i.e., 0.25 to 0.5 seconds. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Chi Nhan Duong , Xin Li , Susan Gauch , Han-Seok Seo , Khoa Luu

In this paper, the multi-task learning of lightweight convolutional neural networks is studied for face identification and classification of facial attributes (age, gender, ethnicity) trained on cropped faces without margins. The necessity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Andrey V. Savchenko

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is valuable because micro-expressions (MEs) can reveal genuine emotions. Most works take image sequences as input and cannot effectively explore ME information because subtle ME-related motions are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinsheng Wei , Wei Peng , Guanming Lu , Yante Li , Jingjie Yan , Guoying Zhao

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

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

Unlike macro-expression, micro-expression does not follow a strictly consistent mapping rule between emotions and Action Units (AUs). As a result, some micro-expressions share identical AUs yet represent completely opposite emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxing Hu , Kun Xie , Qiguang Miao , Ruyi Liu , Quan Wang , Zongkai Yang

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

Spatial-temporal feature learning is of vital importance for video emotion recognition. Previous deep network structures often focused on macro-motion which extends over long time scales, e.g., on the order of seconds. We believe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Didan Deng , Zhaokang Chen , Yuqian Zhou , Bertram Shi

Micro-expressions are brief spontaneous facial expressions that appear on a face when a person conceals an emotion, making them different to normal facial expressions in subtlety and duration. Currently, emotion classes within the CASME II…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Adrian K. Davison , Walied Merghani , Moi Hoon Yap

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

Micro-expressions (MEs) are rapid, involuntary facial expressions which reveal emotions that people do not intend to show. Studying MEs is valuable as recognizing them has many important applications, particularly in forensic science and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Antti Moilanen , Xiaohua Huang , Tomas Pfister , Guoying Zhao , Matti Pietikäinen