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As a fine-grained and local expression behavior measurement, facial action unit (FAU) analysis (e.g., detection and intensity estimation) has been documented for its time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone annotation. Thus a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bowen Ma , Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Yu Ding , Zeng Zhao , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) aims to identify emotional states by modeling the temporal changes in facial movements across video sequences. A key challenge in DFER is the many-to-one labeling problem, where a video composed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Gunho Jung , Heejo Kong , Seong-Whan Lee

This paper proposes a novel 4D Facial Expression Recognition (FER) method using Collaborative Cross-domain Dynamic Image Network (CCDN). Given a 4D data of face scans, we first compute its geometrical images, and then combine their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Muzammil Behzad , Nhat Vo , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

We propose an approach for unsupervised domain adaptation for the task of estimating someone's age from a given face image. In order to avoid the propagation of racial bias in most publicly available face image datasets into the inefficacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Apoorva Gokhale , Astuti Sharma , Kaustav Datta , Savyasachi

Patient pain can be detected highly reliably from facial expressions using a set of facial muscle-based action units (AUs) defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A key characteristic of facial expression of pain is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana J. Wilkie

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims to expand the applicability of Face Recognition (FR) systems to challenging scenarios, enabling the matching of face images across different domains, such as matching thermal images to visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Cross-domain facial expression recognition (CD-FER) remains difficult due to severe domain shift between training and deployment data. We propose Graph-Attention Network with Adversarial Domain Alignment (GAT-ADA), a hybrid framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Razieh Ghaedi , AmirReza BabaAhmadi , Reyer Zwiggelaar , Xinqi Fan , Nashid Alam

Facial action units (AUs) recognition is essential for emotion analysis and has been widely applied in mental state analysis. Existing work on AU recognition usually requires big face dataset with AU labels; however, manual AU annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xuesong Niu , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Action Unit (AU) Detection is the branch of affective computing that aims at recognizing unitary facial muscular movements. It is key to unlock unbiased computational face representations and has therefore aroused great interest in the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Gauthier Tallec , Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) from videos is a crucial task in various application areas, such as human-computer interaction and health diagnosis and monitoring (e.g., assessing pain and depression). Beyond the challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Masoumeh Sharafi , Emma Ollivier , Muhammad Osama Zeeshan , Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

For the Facial Action Unit (AU) detection task, accurately capturing the subtle facial differences between distinct AUs is essential for reliable detection. Additionally, AU detection faces challenges from class imbalance and the presence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ziqiao Shang , Bin Liu , Fengmao Lv , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection is a crucial task for emotion analysis from facial movements. The apparent differences of different subjects sometimes mislead changes brought by AUs, resulting in inaccurate results. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiyuan Cao , Zhilei Liu , Yong Zhang

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is essential to the development of intelligent and empathetic machines. Prior efforts in this field mainly fall into supervised learning paradigm, which is severely restricted by the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Licai Sun , Zheng Lian , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

Data inconsistency and bias are inevitable among different facial expression recognition (FER) datasets due to subjective annotating process and different collecting conditions. Recent works resort to adversarial mechanisms that learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yuan Xie , Tianshui Chen , Tao Pu , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

Facial expressions are combinations of basic components called Action Units (AU). Recognizing AUs is key for developing general facial expression analysis. In recent years, most efforts in automatic AU recognition have been dedicated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Ciprian A. Corneanu , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer and adapt knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Traditionally, subspace-based methods form an important class of solutions to this problem. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kowshik Thopalli , Jayaraman J Thiagarajan , Rushil Anirudh , Pavan K Turaga

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) suffers from data uncertainties caused by ambiguous facial images and annotators' subjectiveness, resulting in excursive semantic and feature covariate shifting problem. Existing works usually correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yangtao Du , Qingqing Wang , Yujie Xiong

Deep learning-based diagnostic models often suffer performance drops due to distribution shifts between training (source) and test (target) domains. Collecting and labeling sufficient target domain data for model retraining represents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yaofei Duan , Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Luyi Han , Xinyu Xie , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ping He , Ka-Hou Chan , Ligang Cui , Sio-Kei Im , Dong Ni , Tao Tan

Facial action unit (AU) detection, aiming to classify AU present in the facial image, has long suffered from insufficient AU annotations. In this paper, we aim to mitigate this data scarcity issue by learning AU representations from a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yong Li , Shiguang Shan

The recent research of facial expression recognition has made a lot of progress due to the development of deep learning technologies, but some typical challenging problems such as the variety of rich facial expressions and poses are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Wenxuan Wang , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yanwei Fu