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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…

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Video-based emotion recognition is a challenging task because it requires to distinguish the small deformations of the human face that represent emotions, while being invariant to stronger visual differences due to different identities.…

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Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary and subtle facial expressions that are thought to reveal feelings people are trying to hide. ME spotting detects the temporal intervals containing MEs in videos. Detecting such quick and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yini Fang , Didan Deng , Liang Wu , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Facial expressions play an important role in conveying the emotional states of human beings. Recently, deep learning approaches have been applied to image recognition field due to the discriminative power of Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yingruo Fan , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li

Micro-expressions are short bursts of emotion that are difficult to hide. Their detection in children is an important cue to assist psychotherapists in conducting better therapy. However, existing research on the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Nikin~Matharaarachchi , Muhammad~Fermi Pasha , Sonya~Coleman , Kah PengWong

Recently, the recognition task of spontaneous facial micro-expressions has attracted much attention with its various real-world applications. Plenty of handcrafted or learned features have been employed for a variety of classifiers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaopeng Hong , Xingyu Gao , Xiaoyi Feng , Guoying Zhao

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary, low-intensity, and short-duration facial expressions that often reveal an individual's genuine thoughts and emotions. Most existing ME analysis methods rely on window-level classification with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zizheng Guo , Bochao Zou , Yinuo Jia , Xiangyu Li , Huimin Ma

Micro-expressions (MEs) are crucial leakages of concealed emotion, yet their study has been constrained by a reliance on silent, visual-only data. To solve this issue, we introduce two principal contributions. First, MMED, to our knowledge,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Junbo Wang , Yan Zhao , Shuo Li , Shibo Wang , Shigang Wang , Jian Wei

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

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

Micro-expression recognition (MER) presents a significant challenge due to the transient and subtle nature of the motion changes involved. In recent years, deep learning methods based on attention mechanisms have made some breakthroughs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Lijun Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Weicheng Tang , Xinzhi Sun , Xiaomeng Wang , Zhanshan Li

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

Micro-expressions are subtle facial movements that occur spontaneously when people try to conceal real emotions. Micro-expression recognition is crucial in many fields, including criminal analysis and psychotherapy. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Guanghao Zhu , Lin Liu , Yuhao Hu , Haixin Sun , Fang Liu , Xiaohui Du , Ruqian Hao , Juanxiu Liu , Yong Liu , Hao Deng , Jing Zhang

Action recognition in videos has attracted a lot of attention in the past decade. In order to learn robust models, previous methods usually assume videos are trimmed as short sequences and require ground-truth annotations of each video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xiao-Yu Zhang , Haichao Shi , Changsheng Li , Kai Zheng , Xiaobin Zhu , Lixin Duan

Facial expressions are one of the most powerful ways for depicting specific patterns in human behavior and describing human emotional state. Despite the impressive advances of affective computing over the last decade, automatic video-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Thomas Teixeira , Eric Granger , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

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

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

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

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