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Facial action unit (AU) detection, aiming to classify AU present in the facial image, has long suffered from insufficient AU annotations. In this paper, we aim to mitigate this data scarcity issue by learning AU representations from a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yong Li , Shiguang Shan

Action Units (AUs) are geometrically-based atomic facial muscle movements known to produce appearance changes at specific facial locations. Motivated by this observation we propose a novel AU modelling problem that consists of jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Ioanna Ntinou , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Michel Valstar , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Action Unit (AU) Detection is the branch of affective computing that aims at recognizing unitary facial muscular movements. It is key to unlock unbiased computational face representations and has therefore aroused great interest in the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Gauthier Tallec , Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Due to its importance in facial behaviour analysis, facial action unit (AU) detection has attracted increasing attention from the research community. Leveraging the online knowledge distillation framework, we propose the ``FANTrans" method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jing Yang , Jie Shen , Yiming Lin , Yordan Hristov , Maja Pantic

For the Facial Action Unit (AU) detection task, accurately capturing the subtle facial differences between distinct AUs is essential for reliable detection. Additionally, AU detection faces challenges from class imbalance and the presence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ziqiao Shang , Bin Liu , Fengmao Lv , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

Facial Action Units detection (FAUs) represents a fine-grained classification problem that involves identifying different units on the human face, as defined by the Facial Action Coding System. In this paper, we present a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tu Vu , Van Thong Huynh , Soo Hyung Kim

It is challenging to recognize facial action unit (AU) from spontaneous facial displays, especially when they are accompanied by speech. The major reason is that the information is extracted from a single source, i.e., the visual channel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Zibo Meng , Shizhong Han , Ping Liu , Yan Tong

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

Most state-of-the-art approaches for Facial Action Unit (AU) detection rely upon evaluating facial expressions from static frames, encoding a snapshot of heightened facial activity. In real-world interactions, however, facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Nikhil Churamani , Sinan Kalkan , Hatice Gunes

Despite the success of deep neural networks on facial action unit (AU) detection, better performance depends on a large number of training images with accurate AU annotations. However, labeling AU is time-consuming, expensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yong Li , Shiguang Shan

Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) is a challenging task as the subtle changes occur over different action regions of a face. Changes in facial action regions are formed as Action Units (AUs), and AUs in micro-expressions can be seen as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Ming Dong

Human face recognition is one of the most important research areas in biometrics. However, the robust face recognition under a drastic change of the facial pose, expression, and illumination is a big challenging problem for its practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Bong-Nam Kang , Yonghyun Kim , Bongjin Jun , Daijin Kim

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

This paper proposes a supervised learning approach to jointly perform facial Action Unit (AU) localisation and intensity estimation. Contrary to previous works that try to learn an unsupervised representation of the Action Unit regions, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Enrique Sanchez-Lozano , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Michel Valstar

Action Unit (AU) detection plays an important role for facial expression recognition. To the best of our knowledge, there is little research about AU analysis for micro-expressions. In this paper, we focus on AU detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yante Li , Xiaohua Huang , Guoying Zhao

Expressions and facial action units (AUs) are two levels of facial behavior descriptors. Expression auxiliary information has been widely used to improve the AU detection performance. However, most existing expression representations can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Hao Zeng , Wei Chen , Zhigang Deng , Yu Ding

Multi-modal learning has been intensified in recent years, especially for applications in facial analysis and action unit detection whilst there still exist two main challenges in terms of 1) relevant feature learning for representation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xiang Zhang , Lijun Yin

As a fine-grained and local expression behavior measurement, facial action unit (FAU) analysis (e.g., detection and intensity estimation) has been documented for its time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone annotation. Thus a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bowen Ma , Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Yu Ding , Zeng Zhao , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition(DFER) is a rapidly evolving field of research that focuses on the recognition of time-series facial expressions. While previous research on DFER has concentrated on feature learning from a deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Feng Liu , Lingna Gu , Chen Shi , Xiaolan Fu

Facial action units (AUs) recognition is essential for emotion analysis and has been widely applied in mental state analysis. Existing work on AU recognition usually requires big face dataset with AU labels; however, manual AU annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xuesong Niu , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen