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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

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

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection is a crucial task in affective computing and social robotics as it helps to identify emotions expressed through facial expressions. Anatomically, there are innumerable correlations between AUs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Xin Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Xuesong Niu , Jingang Shi , Zitong Yu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

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

Facial Action Units (AUs) are of great significance in the realm of affective computing. In this paper, we propose AU-LLaVA, the first unified AU recognition framework based on the Large Language Model (LLM). AU-LLaVA consists of a visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Guohong Hu , Xing Lan , Hanyu Jiang , Jiayi Lyu , Jian Xue

Detecting action units (AUs) on human faces is challenging because various AUs make subtle facial appearance change over various regions at different scales. Current works have attempted to recognize AUs by emphasizing important regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Junhai Yong

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

In this report, we present our solution for the Action Unit (AU) Detection Challenge, in 8th Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild. In order to achieve robust and accurate classification of facial action unit in the wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jun Yu , Yunxiang Zhang , Xilong Lu , Yang Zheng , Yongqi Wang , Lingsi Zhu

Facial action unit (AU) detection remains challenging because it involves heterogeneous, AU-specific uncertainties arising at both the representation and decision stages. Recent methods have improved discriminative feature learning, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuze Li , Zhilei Liu

Facial behavior analysis is a broad topic with various categories such as facial emotion recognition, age, and gender recognition. Many studies focus on individual tasks while the multi-task learning approach is still an open research issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Dang-Khanh Nguyen , Sudarshan Pant , Ngoc-Huynh Ho , Guee-Sang Lee , Soo-Huyng Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang

Facial action unit (AU) detection is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. Recent works on AU detection with self-supervised learning have emerged to address this problem, aiming to learn meaningful AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Juan Song , Zhilei Liu

Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. To alleviate this problem, a large amount of efforts has been dedicated to exploiting various weakly supervised methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jingwei Yan , Jingjing Wang , Qiang Li , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

Facial Action Units (AUs) detection is a cornerstone of objective facial expression analysis and a critical focus in affective computing. Despite its importance, AU detection faces significant challenges, such as the high cost of AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Bohao Xing , Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Heikki Kälviäinen

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

Balancing methods for single-label data cannot be applied to multi-label problems as they would also resample the samples with high occurrences. We propose to reformulate this problem as an optimization problem in order to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ines Rieger , Jaspar Pahl , Dominik Seuss

Most existing AU detection works considering AU relationships are relying on probabilistic graphical models with manually extracted features. This paper proposes an end-to-end deep learning framework for facial AU detection with graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Zhilei Liu , Jiahui Dong , Cuicui Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

In this paper, we propose a new automatic Action Units (AUs) recognition method used in a competition, Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). Our method tackles a problem of AUs label inconsistency among subjects by using pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Junya Saito , Ryosuke Kawamura , Akiyoshi Uchida , Sachihiro Youoku , Yuushi Toyoda , Takahisa Yamamoto , Xiaoyu Mi , Kentaro Murase

Much of the work on automatic facial expression recognition relies on databases containing a certain number of emotion classes and their exaggerated facial configurations (generally six prototypical facial expressions), based on Ekman's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Wenjing Yan , Shan Li , Chengtao Que , JiQuan Pei , Weihong Deng

Facial action unit (AU) detection remains a challenging task, due to the subtlety, dynamics, and diversity of AUs. Recently, the prevailing techniques of self-attention and causal inference have been introduced to AU detection. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhiwen Shao , Hancheng Zhu , Yong Zhou , Xiang Xiang , Bing Liu , Rui Yao , Lizhuang Ma

In this paper, we investigate the impact of some of the commonly used settings for (a) preprocessing face images, and (b) classification and training, on Action Unit (AU) detection performance and complexity. We use in our investigation a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Mina Bishay , Ahmed Ghoneim , Mohamed Ashraf , Mohammad Mavadati