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In this paper, we introduce an end-to-end machine learning-based system for classifying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using facial attributes such as expressions, action units, arousal, and valence. Our system classifies ASD using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Beibin Li , Sachin Mehta , Deepali Aneja , Claire Foster , Pamela Ventola , Frederick Shic , Linda Shapiro

We propose a novel convolutional neural network approach to address the fine-grained recognition problem of multi-view dynamic facial action unit detection. We leverage recent gains in large-scale object recognition by formulating the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Andres Romero , Juan Leon , Pablo Arbelaez

Human face exhibits an inherent hierarchy in its representations (i.e., holistic facial expressions can be encoded via a set of facial action units (AUs) and their intensity). Variational (deep) auto-encoders (VAE) have shown great results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Dieu Linh Tran , Robert Walecki , Ognjen Rudovic , Stefanos Eleftheriadis , Bjørn Schuller , Maja Pantic

Generative models have surged in popularity recently due to their ability to produce high-quality images and video. However, steering these models to produce images with specific attributes and precise control remains challenging. Humans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tuomas Varanka , Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Mengting Wei , Hanwei Kung , Nicu Sebe , Guoying Zhao

Visual correspondence is a crucial step in key computer vision tasks, including camera localization, image registration, and structure from motion. The most effective techniques for matching keypoints currently involve using learned sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Felipe Cadar , Guilherme Potje , Renato Martins , Cédric Demonceaux , Erickson R. Nascimento

Determining dense semantic correspondences across objects and scenes is a difficult problem that underpins many higher-level computer vision algorithms. Unlike canonical dense correspondence problems which consider images that are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Hilton Bristow , Jack Valmadre , Simon Lucey

Compared with the progress made on human activity classification, much less success has been achieved on human interaction understanding (HIU). Apart from the latter task is much more challenging, the main cause is that recent approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Zhenhua Wang , Jiajun Meng , Dongyan Guo , Jianhua Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi , Shengyong Chen

Facial Action Units (AUs) are essential for conveying psychological states and emotional expressions. While automatic AU detection systems leveraging deep learning have progressed, they often overfit to specific datasets and individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yong Li , Yi Ren , Xuesong Niu , Yi Ding , Xiu-Shen Wei , Cuntai Guan

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

This paper proposes joint attention estimation in a single image. Different from related work in which only the gaze-related attributes of people are independently employed, (I) their locations and actions are also employed as contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Chihiro Nakatani , Hiroaki Kawashima , Norimichi Ukita

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

Personalization in emotion recognition (ER) is essential for an accurate interpretation of subtle and subject-specific expressive patterns. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Muhammad Osama Zeeshan , Masoumeh Sharafi , Benoît Savary , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

Facial action units (AUs) detection is fundamental to facial expression analysis. As AU occurs only in a small area of the face, region-based learning has been widely recognized useful for AU detection. Most region-based studies focus on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yao Xia

Facial Action Units (AU) is a vital concept in the realm of affective computing, and AU detection has always been a hot research topic. Existing methods suffer from overfitting issues due to the utilization of a large number of learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Weicheng Xie , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Change detection, i.e. identification per pixel of changes for some classes of interest from a set of bi-temporal co-registered images, is a fundamental task in the field of remote sensing. It remains challenging due to unrelated forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , François Waldner , Peter Caccetta

Inter-image association modeling is crucial for co-salient object detection. Despite satisfactory performance, previous methods still have limitations on sufficient inter-image association modeling. Because most of them focus on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Long Li , Nian Liu , Dingwen Zhang , Zhongyu Li , Salman Khan , Rao Anwer , Hisham Cholakkal , Junwei Han , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task due to two major problems: the presence of inter-subject variations in facial expression recognition dataset and impure expressions posed by human subjects. In this paper we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kamran Ali , Ilkin Isler , Charles Hughes

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) has been used by numerous studies to investigate the links between facial behavior and mental health. The laborious and costly process of FACS coding has motivated the development of machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Evangelos Sariyanidi , Lisa Yankowitz , Robert T. Schultz , John D. Herrington , Birkan Tunc , Jeffrey Cohn

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

Affective Behavior Analysis aims to develop emotionally intelligent technology that can recognize and respond to human emotions. To advance this field, the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition holds the Multi-Task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chen Liu , Wei Zhang , Feng Qiu , Lincheng Li , Xin Yu