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As a spontaneous expression of emotion on face, micro-expression reveals the underlying emotion that cannot be controlled by human. In micro-expression, facial movement is transient and sparsely localized through time. However, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Tao Bi , Tong Chen , Yu Shi , Xiang-Dong Zhou

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) aims to identify and understand the emotions expressed by speakers during utterance interaction from multiple modalities (e.g., text, audio, images, etc.). Existing studies have shown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Tao Meng , Weilun Tang , Yuntao Shou , Yilong Tan , Jun Zhou , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

Micro-expression recognition (MER) has drawn increasing attention in recent years due to its potential applications in intelligent medical and lie detection. However, the shortage of annotated data has been the major obstacle to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hanting Li , Hongjing Niu , Feng Zhao

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements revealing people's hidden feelings, which has attracted numerous interests for its objectivity in emotion detection. However, despite its wide applications in various scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jingyao Wang , Yunhan Tian , Yuxuan Yang , Xiaoxin Chen , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

One of the most important subconscious reactions, micro-expression (ME), is a spontaneous, subtle, and transient facial expression that reveals human beings' genuine emotion. Therefore, automatically recognizing ME (MER) is becoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sirui Zhao , Huaying Tang , Xinglong Mao , Shifeng Liu , Yiming Zhang , Hao Wang , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Micro-expressions (MEs) are rapid, involuntary facial expressions which reveal emotions that people do not intend to show. Studying MEs is valuable as recognizing them has many important applications, particularly in forensic science and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Antti Moilanen , Xiaohua Huang , Tomas Pfister , Guoying Zhao , Matti Pietikäinen

Recognizing human emotion/expressions automatically is quite an expected ability for intelligent robotics, as it can promote better communication and cooperation with humans. Current deep-learning-based algorithms may achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tao Pu , Tianshui Chen , Yuan Xie , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

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

Micro-expression recognition (MER) draws intensive research interest as micro-expressions (MEs) can infer genuine emotions. Prior information can guide the model to learn discriminative ME features effectively. However, most works focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinsheng Wei , Haoyu Chen , Guanming Lu , Jingjie Yan , Yue Xie , Guoying Zhao

Micro-expression (ME) recognition plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, particularly in public security and psychotherapy. Recently, traditional methods rely excessively on machine learning design and the recognition rate is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Jinming Liu , Ke Li , Baolin Song , Li Zhao

Facial micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements of the face that occur spontaneously when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to suppress or repress the facial expression, typically found in a high-stakes environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Wen-Huang Cheng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davision

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging problem, due to transient and subtle micro-expression (ME) actions. Most existing methods depend on hand-crafted features, key frames like onset, apex, and offset frames, or deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Feiran Li , Yong Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Automated facial expression analysis has a variety of applications in human-computer interaction. Traditional methods mainly analyze prototypical facial expressions of no more than eight discrete emotions as a classification task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Feng Zhou , Shu Kong , Charless Fowlkes , Tao Chen , Baiying Lei

Facial expression spotting is a significant but challenging task in facial expression analysis. The accuracy of expression spotting is affected not only by irrelevant facial movements but also by the difficulty of perceiving subtle motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yicheng Deng , Hideaki Hayashi , Hajime Nagahara

Pose-based action recognition has drawn considerable attention recently. Existing methods exploit the joint positions to extract the body-part features from the activation map of the convolutional networks to assist human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lei Shi , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng , Hanqing Lu

Micro-expression recognition (\textbf{MER}) has attracted lots of researchers' attention in a decade. However, occlusion will occur for MER in real-world scenarios. This paper deeply investigates an interesting but unexplored challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Qirong Mao , Ling Zhou , Wenming Zheng , Xiuyan Shao , Xiaohua Huang

Since Facial Action Unit (AU) annotations require domain expertise, common AU datasets only contain a limited number of subjects. As a result, a crucial challenge for AU detection is addressing identity overfitting. We find that AUs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhipeng Hu , Wei Zhang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Wei Chen , Zhigang Deng , Xin Yu

Despite being the appearance-based classifier of choice in recent years, relatively few works have examined how much convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can improve performance on accepted expression recognition benchmarks and, more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Pooya Khorrami , Tom Le Paine , Thomas S. Huang

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief and involuntary facial expressions that occur when people are trying to hide their true feelings or conceal their emotions. Based on psychology research, MEs play an important role in understanding genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Thuong-Khanh Tran , Quang-Nhat Vo , Xiaopeng Hong , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is vital for understanding interpersonal communication. However, existing classification methods often face challenges such as vulnerability to noise, imbalanced datasets, overfitting, and generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hozaifa Kassab , Mohamed Bahaa , Ali Hamdi