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Representations used for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) usually contain expression information along with identity features. In this paper, we propose a novel Disentangled Expression learning-Generative Adversarial Network (DE-GAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Ensemble methods are known for enhancing the accuracy and robustness of machine learning models by combining multiple base learners. However, standard approaches like greedy or random ensembling often fall short, as they assume a constant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sebastian Pineda Arango , Maciej Janowski , Lennart Purucker , Arber Zela , Frank Hutter , Josif Grabocka

This study investigates the key characteristics and suitability of widely used Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets for training deep learning models. In the field of affective computing, FER is essential for interpreting human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Célia Martinie , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

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

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a crucial part of human-computer interaction. Existing FER methods achieve high accuracy and generalization based on different open-source deep models and training approaches. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Gianmarco Ipinze Tutuianu , Yang Liu , Ari Alamäki , Janne Kauttonen

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) and their variants have been widely used in large scale face recognition(FR) recently. Existing methods have achieved good performance on many FR benchmarks. However, most of them suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jing Xu , Tszhang Guo , Yong Xu , Zenglin Xu , Kun Bai

Facial expression recognition (FER) systems in low-resolution settings face significant challenges in accurately identifying expressions due to the loss of fine-grained facial details. This limitation is especially problematic for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Soham Kumar , Aryan Seth , Pratik Narang

For many years, the emotion recognition task has remained one of the most interesting and important problems in the field of human-computer interaction. In this study, we consider the emotion recognition task as a classification as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Denis Rangulov , Muhammad Fahim

In this paper, we present an approach based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for facial expression recognition in a difficult setting with severe occlusions. More specifically, our task is to recognize the facial expression of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Facial expression recognition (FER) algorithms work well in constrained environments with little or no occlusion of the face. However, real-world face occlusion is prevalent, most notably with the need to use a face mask in the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sridhar Sola , Darshan Gera

The paper describes our proposed methodology for the seven basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2021. In this task, facial expression recognition (FER) methods aim to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shuyi Mao , Xinqi Fan , Xiaojiang Peng

An ensemble method that fuses the output decision vectors of multiple feedforward-designed convolutional neural networks (FF-CNNs) to solve the image classification problem is proposed in this work. To enhance the performance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yueru Chen , Yijing Yang , Wei Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

We propose a deep metric learning model to create embedded sub-spaces with a well defined structure. A new loss function that imposes Gaussian structures on the output space is introduced to create these sub-spaces thus shaping the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Tsang Ing Jyh , Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Alexandre Cunha

Facial emotion recognition (FER) is significant for human-computer interaction such as clinical practice and behavioral description. Accurate and robust FER by computer models remains challenging due to the heterogeneity of human faces and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yousif Khaireddin , Zhuofa Chen

In this paper, we propose an approach for Facial Expressions Recognition (FER) based on a deep multi-facial patches aggregation network. Deep features are learned from facial patches using deep sub-networks and aggregated within one deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ahmed Rachid Hazourli , Amine Djeghri , Hanan Salam , Alice Othmani

Facial expressions play a fundamental role in human communication. Indeed, they typically reveal the real emotional status of people beyond the spoken language. Moreover, the comprehension of human affect based on visual patterns is a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Donato Cafarelli , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Facial expression recognition is a topic of great interest in most fields from artificial intelligence and gaming to marketing and healthcare. The goal of this paper is to classify images of human faces into one of seven basic emotions. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Akash Saravanan , Gurudutt Perichetla , K. S. Gayathri

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

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a critical task within computer vision with diverse applications across various domains. Addressing the challenge of limited FER datasets, which hampers the generalization capability of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bach Nguyen-Xuan , Thien Nguyen-Hoang , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Nhu Tai-Do

A core challenge faced by the majority of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is an impaired ability to infer other people's emotions based on their facial expressions. With significant recent advances in machine learning, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 James Ren Hou Lee , Alexander Wong