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In recent years, extensive research has emerged in affective computing on topics like automatic emotion recognition and determining the signals that characterize individual emotions. Much less studied, however, is expressiveness, or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Victoria Lin , Jeffrey M. Girard , Louis-Philippe Morency

Facial expressions are one of the most powerful ways for depicting specific patterns in human behavior and describing human emotional state. Despite the impressive advances of affective computing over the last decade, automatic video-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Thomas Teixeira , Eric Granger , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Facial expressions vary from person to person, and the brightness, contrast, and resolution of every random image are different. This is why recognizing facial expressions is very difficult. This article proposes an efficient system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Faisal Ghaffar

In recent years, the use of bio-sensing signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), etc. have garnered interest towards applications in affective computing. The parallel trend of deep-learning has led to a huge leap…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Siddharth Siddharth , Tzyy-Ping Jung , Terrence J. Sejnowski

Bias analysis for synthetic face detection is bound to become a critical topic in the coming years. Although many detection models have been developed and several datasets have been released to reliably identify synthetic content, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Asmae Lamsaf , Lucia Cascone , Hugo Proença , João Neves

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

Datasets are crucial when training a deep neural network. When datasets are unrepresentative, trained models are prone to bias because they are unable to generalise to real world settings. This is particularly problematic for models trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Mkhuseli Ngxande , Jules-Raymond Tapamo , Michael Burke

Deep Learning models have achieved remarkable success. Training them is often accelerated by building on top of pre-trained models which poses the risk of perpetuating encoded biases. Here, we investigate biases in the representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Valerie Krug , Sebastian Stober

Despite significant progress over the past few years, ambiguity is still a key challenge in Facial Expression Recognition (FER). It can lead to noisy and inconsistent annotation, which hinders the performance of deep learning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Quang Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen

Recently, deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) methods have attracted considerable attention and they usually require large-scale labelled training data. Nonetheless, the publicly available facial expression databases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Yan Yan , Ying Huang , Si Chen , Chunhua Shen , Hanzi Wang

Emotion recognition has become an important field of research in Human Computer Interactions as we improve upon the techniques for modelling the various aspects of behaviour. With the advancement of technology our understanding of emotions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Samarth Tripathi , Sarthak Tripathi , Homayoon Beigi

Deep neural networks are highly susceptible to learning biases in visual data. While various methods have been proposed to mitigate such bias, the majority require explicit knowledge of the biases present in the training data in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Rebecca S Stone , Nishant Ravikumar , Andrew J Bulpitt , David C Hogg

Affective computing faces a major challenge: the lack of high-quality, diverse depth facial datasets for recognizing subtle emotional expressions. We propose a framework for synthetic depth face generation using an optimized GAN with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Seyed Muhammad Hossein Mousavi , S. Younes Mirinezhad

The presence of bias in deep models leads to unfair outcomes for certain demographic subgroups. Research in bias focuses primarily on facial recognition and attribute prediction with scarce emphasis on face detection. Existing studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Surbhi Mittal , Kartik Thakral , Puspita Majumdar , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Adversarial learning has been embedded into deep networks to learn disentangled and transferable representations for domain adaptation. Existing adversarial domain adaptation methods may not effectively align different domains of multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Mingsheng Long , Zhangjie Cao , Jianmin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

We introduce a novel task, Generalized Facial Expression Category Discovery (G-FACE), that discovers new, unseen facial expressions while recognizing known categories effectively. Even though there are generalized category discovery methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Tingzhang Luo , Yichao Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Andi Zhang , Xin Wang , Yibing Zhan , Chang Tang , Leyuan Liu , Zhe Chen

Facial expression analysis is central to understanding human behavior, yet existing coding systems such as the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) are constrained by limited coverage and costly manual annotation. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Minh Tran , Maksim Siniukov , Zhangyu Jin , Mohammad Soleymani

Complex emotion recognition is a cognitive task that has so far eluded the same excellent performance of other tasks that are at or above the level of human cognition. Emotion recognition through facial expressions is particularly difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Angus Maiden , Bahareh Nakisa

Facial expressions play a crucial role in human communication serving as a powerful and impactful means to express a wide range of emotions. With advancements in artificial intelligence and computer vision, deep neural networks have emerged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yassine El Boudouri , Amine Bohi

Current state-of-the-art models for automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) are based on very deep neural networks that are effective but rather expensive to train. Given the dynamic conditions of FER, this characteristic hinders such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Alessandra Sciutti