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Detection of human emotions based on facial images in real-world scenarios is a difficult task due to low image quality, variations in lighting, pose changes, background distractions, small inter-class variations, noisy crowd-sourced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sahil Naik , Soham Bagayatkar , Pavankumar Singh

Analysis of human affect plays a vital role in human-computer interaction (HCI) systems. Due to the difficulty in capturing large amounts of real-life data, most of the current methods have mainly focused on controlled environments, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jun Yu , Zhongpeng Cai , Peng He , Guocheng Xie , Qiang Ling

The paper describes BIRAFFE2 data set, which is a result of an affective computing experiment conducted between 2019 and 2020, that aimed to develop computer models for classification and recognition of emotion. Such work is important to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Krzysztof Kutt , Dominika Drążyk , Maciej Szelążek , Szymon Bobek , Grzegorz J. Nalepa

Current FER (Facial Expression Recognition) dataset is mostly labeled by emotion categories, such as happy, angry, sad, fear, disgust, surprise, and neutral which are limited in expressiveness. However, future affective computing requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Huo , Yun Ge

Visual emotion analysis or recognition has gained considerable attention due to the growing interest in understanding how images can convey rich semantics and evoke emotions in human perception. However, visual emotion analysis poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Rahul Singh Maharjan , Marta Romeo , Angelo Cangelosi

Facial action unit recognition is an important task for facial analysis. Owing to the complex collection environment, facial action unit recognition in the wild is still challenging. The 3rd competition on affective behavior analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shangfei Wang , Yanan Chang , Jiahe Wang

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

Automatic Emotion Detection (ED) aims to build systems to identify users' emotions automatically. This field has the potential to enhance HCI, creating an individualised experience for the user. However, ED systems tend to perform poorly on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Annanda Sousa , Karen Young , Mathieu D'aquin , Manel Zarrouk , Jennifer Holloway

This article presents our results for the eighth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) competition. We combine facial emotional descriptors extracted by pre-trained models, namely, our EmotiEffLib library, with acoustic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Andrey V. Savchenko

Facial emotion recognition is a vast and complex problem space within the domain of computer vision and thus requires a universally accepted baseline method with which to evaluate proposed models. While test datasets have served this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Nyle Siddiqui , Rushit Dave , Tyler Bauer , Thomas Reither , Dylan Black , Mitchell Hanson

Affective computing for animals is a rapidly expanding research area that is going deeper than automated movement tracking to address animal internal states, like pain and emotions. Facial expressions can serve to communicate information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 George Martvel , Greta Abele , Annika Bremhorst , Chiara Canori , Nareed Farhat , Giulia Pedretti , Ilan Shimshoni , Anna Zamansky

Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…

Most automatic emotion recognition systems exploit time-continuous annotations of emotion to provide fine-grained descriptions of spontaneous expressions as observed in real-life interactions. As emotion is rather subjective, its annotation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sina Alisamir , Fabien Ringeval , Francois Portet

Emotions play an important role in people's life. Understanding and recognising is not only important for interpersonal communication, but also has promising applications in Human-Computer Interaction, automobile safety and medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Xia Yicheng , Dimitrios Kollias

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) plays a crucial role in human affective analysis and has been widely applied in computer vision tasks such as human-computer interaction and psychological assessment. The 8th Affective Behavior Analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 JunGyu Lee , Kunyoung Lee , Haesol Park , Ig-Jae Kim , Gi Pyo Nam

Affective computing stands at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to imbue machines with the ability to comprehend and respond to human emotions. Central to this field is emotion recognition, which endeavors to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Fei Ma , Yucheng Yuan , Yifan Xie , Hongwei Ren , Ivan Liu , Ying He , Fuji Ren , Fei Richard Yu , Shiguang Ni

This Project was my Undergraduate Final Year dissertation, supervised by Dimitrios Kollias This research delves into the realm of affective computing for image analysis, aiming to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Fazeel Asim

Affective computing is a field of great interest in many computer vision applications, including video surveillance, behaviour analysis, and human-robot interaction. Most of the existing literature has addressed this field by analysing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Danilo Avola , Luigi Cinque , Alessio Fagioli , Gian Luca Foresti , Cristiano Massaroni

This paper examines the integration of emotional intelligence into artificial intelligence systems, with a focus on affective computing and the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, to recognize…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Nicola Fabiano

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