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Although state-of-the-art classifiers for facial expression recognition (FER) can achieve a high level of accuracy, they lack interpretability, an important feature for end-users. Experts typically associate spatial action units (AUs) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

Facial expressions are combinations of basic components called Action Units (AU). Recognizing AUs is key for developing general facial expression analysis. In recent years, most efforts in automatic AU recognition have been dedicated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Ciprian A. Corneanu , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

Facial action unit (AU) intensity plays a pivotal role in quantifying fine-grained expression behaviors, which is an effective condition for facial expression manipulation. However, publicly available datasets containing intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Shiwei Jin , Zhen Wang , Lei Wang , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

In this paper, we present a unified architecture known as Transfer-Editing and Recognition Generative Adversarial Network (TER-GAN) which can be used: 1. to transfer facial expressions from one identity to another identity, known as Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Face swapping has gained significant traction, driven by the plethora of human face synthesis facilitated by deep learning methods. However, previous face swapping methods that used generative adversarial networks (GANs) as backbones have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xinyu Yang , Hongbo Bo

Affective computing and cognitive theory are widely used in modern human-computer interaction scenarios. Human faces, as the most prominent and easily accessible features, have attracted great attention from researchers. Since humans have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Wenxuan Wang , Yanwei Fu , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Recognizing human emotion/expressions automatically is quite an expected ability for intelligent robotics, as it can promote better communication and cooperation with humans. Current deep-learning-based algorithms may achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tao Pu , Tianshui Chen , Yuan Xie , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

Facial Expression Recognition from static images is a challenging problem in computer vision applications. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), the state-of-the-art method for various computer vision tasks, has had limited success in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rohan Wadhawan , Tapan K. Gandhi

Although face swapping has attracted much attention in recent years, it remains a challenging problem. Existing methods leverage a large number of data samples to explore the intrinsic properties of face swapping without considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Qi Li , Weining Wang , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenan Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Cross-domain synthesizing realistic faces to learn deep models has attracted increasing attention for facial expression analysis as it helps to improve the performance of expression recognition accuracy despite having small number of real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

The transfer of facial expressions from people to 3D face models is a classic computer graphics problem. In this paper, we present a novel, learning-based approach to transferring facial expressions and head movements from images and videos…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Xiao S. Zeng , Surya Dwarakanath , Wuyue Lu , Masaki Nakada , Demetri Terzopoulos

Recent advances in 3D facial expression reconstruction have demonstrated remarkable performance in capturing macro-expressions, yet the reconstruction of micro-expressions remains unexplored. This novel task is particularly challenging due…

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Recognizing wild faces is extremely hard as they appear with all kinds of variations. Traditional methods either train with specifically annotated variation data from target domains, or by introducing unlabeled target variation data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yichun Shi , Xiang Yu , Kihyuk Sohn , Manmohan Chandraker , Anil K. Jain

Although state-of-the-art classifiers for facial expression recognition (FER) can achieve a high level of accuracy, they lack interpretability, an important feature for end-users. Experts typically associate spatial action units (\aus) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

Most of the existing work on automatic facial expression analysis focuses on discrete emotion recognition, or facial action unit detection. However, facial expressions do not always fall neatly into pre-defined semantic categories. Also,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Raviteja Vemulapalli , Aseem Agarwala

Facial micro-expressions are spontaneous, brief and subtle facial motions that unveil the underlying, suppressed emotions. Detecting Action Units (AUs) in micro-expressions is crucial because it yields a finer representation of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Guoying Zhao

Generating animal faces using generative AI techniques is challenging because the available training images are limited both in quantity and variation, particularly for facial expressions across individuals. In this study, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Takuya Igaue , Catia Correia-Caeiro , Akito Yoshida , Takako Miyabe-Nishiwaki , Ryusuke Hayashi

Facial Expression Recognition is a commercially-important application, but one under-appreciated limitation is that such applications require making predictions on out-of-sample distributions, where target images have different properties…

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

Facial expression is an essential factor in conveying human emotional states and intentions. Although remarkable advancement has been made in facial expression recognition (FER) task, challenges due to large variations of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jie Lei , Zhao Liu , Zeyu Zou , Tong Li , Xu Juan , Shuaiwei Wang , Guoyu Yang , Zunlei Feng

Accurate representations of 3D faces are of paramount importance in various computer vision and graphics applications. However, the challenges persist due to the limitations imposed by data discretization and model linearity, which hinder…

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