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Despite significant recent advances in the field of head pose estimation and facial expression recognition, raising the cognitive level when analysing human activity presents serious challenges to current concepts. Motivated by the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Grigorios Kalliatakis , Nikolaos Vidakis , Georgios Triantafyllidis

The ACII Affective Vocal Bursts (A-VB) competition introduces a new topic in affective computing, which is understanding emotional expression using the non-verbal sound of humans. We are familiar with emotion recognition via verbal vocal or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Dang-Khanh Nguyen , Sudarshan Pant , Ngoc-Huynh Ho , Guee-Sang Lee , Soo-Huyng Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild is extremely challenging due to occlusions, variant head poses, face deformation and motion blur under unconstrained conditions. Although substantial progresses have been made in automatic FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

This article presents our results for the eighth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition.Multimodal emotion recognition (ER) has important applications in affective computing and human-computer interaction. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ran Liu , Fengyu Zhang , Cong Yu , Longjiang Yang , Zhuofan Wen , Siyuan Zhang , Hailiang Yao , Shun Chen , Zheng Lian , Bin Liu

Over the past few years, deep learning methods have shown remarkable results in many face-related tasks including automatic facial expression recognition (FER) in-the-wild. Meanwhile, numerous models describing the human emotional states…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Panagiotis Antoniadis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Petros Maragos

Understanding emotional signals in older adults is crucial for designing virtual assistants that support their well-being. However, existing affective computing models often face significant limitations: (1) limited availability of datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Josep Lopez Camunas , Cristina Bustos , Yanjun Zhu , Raquel Ros , Agata Lapedriza

Expression recognition in in-the-wild video data remains challenging due to substantial variations in facial appearance, background conditions, audio noise, and the inherently dynamic nature of human affect. Relying on a single modality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Junhyeong Byeon , Jeongyeol Kim , Sejoon Lim

Video content is rich in semantics and has the ability to evoke various emotions in viewers. In recent years, with the rapid development of affective computing and the explosive growth of visual data, affective video content analysis (AVCA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Junxiao Xue , Jie Wang , Xuecheng Wu , Qian Zhang

Over the past decades the machine and deep learning community has celebrated great achievements in challenging tasks such as image classification. The deep architecture of artificial neural networks together with the plenitude of available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jessica Deuschel , Bettina Finzel , Ines Rieger

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

This paper presents our system for the Multi-Task Learning (MTL) Challenge in the 4th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition. We explore the research problems of this challenge from three aspects: 1) For obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Tenggan Zhang , Chuanhe Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Yuchen Liu , Liyu Meng , Lei Sun , Wenqiang Jiang , Fengyuan Zhang , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin

This paper describes an approach to the facial action unit (AU) detection. In this work, we present our submission to the Field Affective Behavior Analysis (ABAW) 2021 competition. The proposed method uses the pre-trained JAA model as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Chenggong Zhang , Juan Song , Qingyang Zhang , Weilong Dong , Ruomeng Ding , Zhilei Liu

In this paper, we briefly introduce our submission to the Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge of the 3rd Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition. Our method utilizes the multi-modal information, i.e., the visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Liyu Meng , Yuchen Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Zhaopei Huang , Yuan Cheng , Meng Wang , Chuanhe Liu , Qin Jin

Facial emotion recognition is an essential and important aspect of the field of human-machine interaction. Past research on facial emotion recognition focuses on the laboratory environment. However, it faces many challenges in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Zheng Lian , Ya Li , Jian-Hua Tao , Jian Huang , Ming-Yue Niu

Automatic affect recognition is a challenging task due to the various modalities emotions can be expressed with. Applications can be found in many domains including multimedia retrieval and human computer interaction. In recent years, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Panagiotis Tzirakis , George Trigeorgis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Björn Schuller , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to simultaneously analyze facial movements and several peripheral physiological signals to decode individualized affective experiences under positive and negative emotional contexts, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yu Yin , Mohsen Nabian , Miolin Fan , ChunAn Chou , Maria Gendron , Sarah Ostadabbas

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represents a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by difficulties in expressing emotions and communication, particularly during early childhood. Understanding the affective state of children at an early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Aura Loredana Dan

Affective Computing has recently attracted the attention of the research community, due to its numerous applications in diverse areas. In this context, the emergence of video-based data allows to enrich the widely used spatial features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Decky Aspandi , Federico Sukno , Björn Schuller , Xavier Binefa

Facial expression in-the-wild is essential for various interactive computing domains. In this paper, we proposed an extended version of DAN model to address the VA estimation and facial expression challenges introduced in ABAW 2022. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jae-Yeop Jeong , Yeong-Gi Hong , Daun Kim , Yuchul Jung , Jin-Woo Jeong

In this paper, we consider the problem of multimodal data analysis with a use case of audiovisual emotion recognition. We propose an architecture capable of learning from raw data and describe three variants of it with distinct modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Kateryna Chumachenko , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj