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One of the most universal ways that people communicate is through facial expressions. In this paper, we take a deep dive, implementing multiple deep learning models for facial expression recognition (FER). Our goals are twofold: we aim not…

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Micro-facial expressions are regarded as an important human behavioural event that can highlight emotional deception. Spotting these movements is difficult for humans and machines, however research into using computer vision to detect…

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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

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 expressions convey human emotions and can be categorized into macro-expressions (MaEs) and micro-expressions (MiEs) based on duration and intensity. While MaEs are voluntary and easily recognized, MiEs are involuntary, rapid, and can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zixuan Shangguan , Yanjie Dong , Song Guo , Victor C. M. Leung , M. Jamal Deen , Xiping Hu

The expression of affect is integral to spoken communication, yet, its link to underlying articulatory execution remains unclear. Measures of articulatory muscle activity such as EMG could reveal how speech production is modulated by…

Emotional expressions are the behaviors that communicate our emotional state or attitude to others. They are expressed through verbal and non-verbal communication. Complex human behavior can be understood by studying physical features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani , Hazem Abdelkawy

Large displacement optical flow is an integral part of many computer vision tasks. Variational optical flow techniques based on a coarse-to-fine scheme interpolate sparse matches and locally optimize an energy model conditioned on colour,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

Facial expressions are an important way through which humans interact socially. Building a system capable of automatically recognizing facial expressions from images and video has been an intense field of study in recent years. Interpreting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Ciprian Corneanu , Marc Oliu , Jeffrey F. Cohn , Sergio Escalera

As one of the most important affective signals, facial affect analysis (FAA) is essential for developing human-computer interaction systems. Early methods focus on extracting appearance and geometry features associated with human affects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yang Liu , Xingming Zhang , Yante Li , Jinzhao Zhou , Xin Li , Guoying Zhao

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

Smile is one of the key elements in identifying emotions and present state of mind of an individual. In this work, we propose a cluster of approaches to classify posed and spontaneous smiles using deep convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Bappaditya Mandal , David Lee , Nizar Ouarti

While current face animation methods can manipulate expressions individually, they suffer from several limitations. The expressions manipulated by some motion-based facial reenactment models are crude. Other ideas modeled with facial action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tianxiang Ma , Bingchuan Li , Qian He , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

Recognizing facial expression in a wild setting has remained a challenging task in computer vision. The World Wide Web is a good source of facial images which most of them are captured in uncontrolled conditions. In fact, the Internet is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Ali Mollahosseini , Behzad Hassani , Michelle J. Salvador , Hojjat Abdollahi , David Chan , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Face Emotion Recognition (FER) is essential for social interactions and understanding others' mental states. Utilizing eye tracking to investigate FER has yielded insights into cognitive processes. In this study, we utilized an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Meisam J. Seikavandi , Maria J. Barrett , Paolo Burelli

Expressions are fundamental to conveying human emotions. With the rapid advancement of AI-generated content (AIGC), realistic and expressive 3D facial animation has become increasingly crucial. Despite recent progress in speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuxiang Mao , Zhijie Zhang , Zhiheng Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Chen Zeng , Shihong Xia

Recent advances in 3D facial expression reconstruction have demonstrated remarkable performance in capturing macro-expressions, yet the reconstruction of micro-expressions remains unexplored. This novel task is particularly challenging due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Che Sun , Xinjie Zhang , Rui Gao , Xu Chen , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a critical task in multimedia with significant implications across various domains. However, analyzing the causes of facial expressions is essential for accurately recognizing them. Current approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xing Lan , Jian Xue , Ji Qi , Dongmei Jiang , Ke Lu , Tat-Seng Chua

In this paper, we propose a new feature descriptor Cross-Centroid Ripple Pattern (CRIP) for facial expression recognition. CRIP encodes the transitional pattern of a facial expression by incorporating cross-centroid relationship between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Monu Verma , Prafulla Saxena , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture…

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