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Facial micro-expressions are subtle and involuntary expressions that can reveal concealed emotions. Micro-expressions are an invaluable source of information in application domains such as lie detection, mental health, sentiment analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Michiel Verburg , Vlado Menkovski

Despite recent interest and advances in facial micro-expression research, there is still plenty room for improvement in terms of micro-expression recognition. Conventional feature extraction approaches for micro-expression video consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Sze-Teng Liong , John See , KokSheik Wong , Raphael C. -W. Phan

Emotion is an experience associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity along with different physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes. One behavioral change is facial expression, which has been studied extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Xiaotian Li , Xiang Zhang , Huiyuan Yang , Wenna Duan , Weiying Dai , Lijun Yin

Despite significant recent advances in the field of head pose estimation and facial expression recognition, raising the cognitive level when analysing human activity presents serious challenges to current concepts. Motivated by the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Grigorios Kalliatakis , Nikolaos Vidakis , Georgios Triantafyllidis

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

Accurately estimating the 3D pose of the camera wearer in egocentric video sequences is crucial to modeling human behavior in virtual and augmented reality applications. The task presents unique challenges due to the limited visibility of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Luca Scofano , Alessio Sampieri , Edoardo De Matteis , Indro Spinelli , Fabio Galasso

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) and emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) are key research topics for computers to understand human behaviors. From a psychological perspective, emotions are the expression of affect or feelings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Guimin Hu , Ting-En Lin , Yi Zhao , Guangming Lu , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li

Micro-expression has emerged as a promising modality in affective computing due to its high objectivity in emotion detection. Despite the higher recognition accuracy provided by the deep learning models, there are still significant scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

Unlike macro-expression, micro-expression does not follow a strictly consistent mapping rule between emotions and Action Units (AUs). As a result, some micro-expressions share identical AUs yet represent completely opposite emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxing Hu , Kun Xie , Qiguang Miao , Ruyi Liu , Quan Wang , Zongkai Yang

Facial expression spotting is the preliminary step for micro- and macro-expression analysis. The task of reliably spotting such expressions in video sequences is currently unsolved. The current best systems depend upon optical flow methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Chuin Hong Yap , Moi Hoon Yap , Adrian K. Davison , Connah Kendrick , Jingting Li , Sujing Wang , Ryan Cunningham

Computing environment is moving towards human-centered designs instead of computer centered designs and human's tend to communicate wealth of information through affective states or expressions. Traditional Human Computer Interaction (HCI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Rizwan Ahmed Khan , Crenn Arthur , Alexandre Meyer , Saida Bouakaz

Automated human emotion recognition from facial expressions is a well-studied problem and still remains a very challenging task. Some efficient or accurate deep learning models have been presented in the literature. However, it is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Monu Verma , Murari Mandal , Satish Kumar Reddy , Yashwanth Reddy Meedimale , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

The Complex Emotion Recognition System (CERS) deciphers complex emotional states by examining combinations of basic emotions expressed, their interconnections, and the dynamic variations. Through the utilization of advanced algorithms, CERS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Javad Hassannataj Joloudari , Mohammad Maftoun , Bahareh Nakisa , Roohallah Alizadehsani , Meisam Yadollahzadeh-Tabari

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging task, due to the transience, subtlety, and dynamics of micro-expressions (MEs). Most existing methods resort to hand-crafted features or deep networks, in which the former often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Fan Zhang , Xuehuai Shi , Canlin Li , Lizhuang Ma , Dit-yan Yeung

Facial emotion recognition is the task to classify human emotions in face images. It is a difficult task due to high aleatoric uncertainty and visual ambiguity. A large part of the literature aims to show progress by increasing accuracy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Maryam Matin , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

This paper proposes a process for a classification model for the facial expressions. The proposed process would aid in specific categorisation of children's emotions from 2 emotions namely 'Happy' and 'Sad'. Since the existing emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Sanchayan Vivekananthan

Micro-expressions are brief, involuntary facial movements that typically last less than half a second and often reveal genuine emotions. Accurately recognizing these subtle expressions is critical for applications in psychology, security,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Micro-action is an imperceptible non-verbal behaviour characterised by low-intensity movement. It offers insights into the feelings and intentions of individuals and is important for human-oriented applications such as emotion recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Dan Guo , Kun Li , Bin Hu , Yan Zhang , Meng Wang

We introduce a new dataset for the emotional artificial intelligence research: identity-free video dataset for Micro-Gesture Understanding and Emotion analysis (iMiGUE). Different from existing public datasets, iMiGUE focuses on nonverbal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Xin Liu , Henglin Shi , Haoyu Chen , Zitong Yu , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhaoz?

Facial expressions vary from the visible to the subtle. In recent years, the analysis of micro-expressions $-$ a natural occurrence resulting from the suppression of one's true emotions, has drawn the attention of researchers with a broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Gen-Bing Liong , John See , Lai-Kuan Wong