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Facial Action Coding System is an important approach of facial expression analysis.This paper describes our submission to the third Affective Behavior Analysis (ABAW) 2022 competition. We proposed a transfomer based model to detect facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lingfeng Wang , Shisen Wang , Jin Qi

Current works formulate facial action unit (AU) recognition as a supervised learning problem, requiring fully AU-labeled facial images during training. It is challenging if not impossible to provide AU annotations for large numbers of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Shangfei Wang , Yanan Chang , Guozhu Peng , Bowen Pan

Micro-expressions (MEs) are infrequent and uncontrollable facial events that can highlight emotional deception and appear in a high-stakes environment. This paper propose an algorithm for spatiotemporal MEs spotting. Since MEs are unusual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Dawood Al Chanti , Alice Caplier

Micro-expressions are nonverbal facial expressions that reveal the covert emotions of individuals, making the micro-expression recognition task receive widespread attention. However, the micro-expression recognition task is challenging due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ren Zhang , Jianqin Yin , Chao Qi , Zehao Wang , Zhicheng Zhang , Yonghao Dang

In skeleton-based human action recognition, temporal pooling is a critical step for capturing spatiotemporal relationship of joint dynamics. Conventional pooling methods overlook the preservation of motion information and treat each frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara , Wanqing Li , Jack Yang , Philip Ogunbona

Facial Micro-expression Recognition (MER) distinguishes the underlying emotional states of spontaneous subtle facialexpressions. Automatic MER is challenging because that 1) the intensity of subtle facial muscle movement is extremely lowand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wei Peng , Xiaopeng Hong , Yingyue Xu , Guoying Zhao

Micro-Expression (ME) is the spontaneous, involuntary movement of a face that can reveal the true feeling. Recently, increasing researches have paid attention to this field combing deep learning techniques. Action units (AUs) are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ling Lo , Hong-Xia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Facial action units (AUs), as defined in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), have received significant research interest owing to their diverse range of applications in facial state analysis. Current mainstream FAU recognition models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xuri Ge , Junchen Fu , Fuhai Chen , Shan An , Nicu Sebe , Joemon M. Jose

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

Multimodal foundation models have significantly improved feature representation by integrating information from multiple modalities, making them highly suitable for a broader set of applications. However, the exploration of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kaiwen Zheng , Xuri Ge , Junchen Fu , Jun Peng , Joemon M. Jose

Facial action unit (AU) detection and face alignment are two highly correlated tasks since facial landmarks can provide precise AU locations to facilitate the extraction of meaningful local features for AU detection. Most existing AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zhiwen Shao , Zhilei Liu , Jianfei Cai , Lizhuang Ma

Facial Action Units (AU) is a vital concept in the realm of affective computing, and AU detection has always been a hot research topic. Existing methods suffer from overfitting issues due to the utilization of a large number of learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Weicheng Xie , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection has gained significant attention as it enables the breakdown of complex facial expressions into individual muscle movements. In this paper, we revisit two fundamental factors in AU detection: diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Mang Ning , Albert Ali Salah , Itir Onal Ertugrul

Automatic detection of facial Action Units (AUs) allows for objective facial expression analysis. Due to the high cost of AU labeling and the limited size of existing benchmarks, previous AU detection methods tend to overfit the dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yufeng Yin , Di Chang , Guoxian Song , Shen Sang , Tiancheng Zhi , Jing Liu , Linjie Luo , Mohammad Soleymani

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

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

This paper studies how to introduce viewpoint-invariant feature representations that can help action recognition and detection. Although we have witnessed great progress of action recognition in the past decade, it remains challenging yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Junwei Liang , Liangliang Cao , Xuehan Xiong , Ting Yu , Alexander Hauptmann

Correctly perceiving micro-expression is difficult since micro-expression is an involuntary, repressed, and subtle facial expression, and efficiently revealing the subtle movement changes and capturing the significant segments in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiateng Liu , Wenming Zheng , Yuan Zong

Machine learning models automatically learn discriminative features from the data, and are therefore susceptible to learn strongly-correlated biases, such as using protected attributes like gender and race. Most existing bias mitigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Varsha Suresh , Desmond C. Ong

Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. To alleviate this problem, a large amount of efforts has been dedicated to exploiting various methods which leverage numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Jingwei Yan , Jingjing Wang , Qiang Li , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu