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This paper proposes a supervised learning approach to jointly perform facial Action Unit (AU) localisation and intensity estimation. Contrary to previous works that try to learn an unsupervised representation of the Action Unit regions, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Enrique Sanchez-Lozano , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Michel Valstar

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has remained a challenging and interesting problem. Despite efforts made in developing various methods for FER, existing approaches traditionally lack generalizability when applied to unseen…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ali Mollahosseini , David Chan , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Facial expression is an essential factor in conveying human emotional states and intentions. Although remarkable advancement has been made in facial expression recognition (FER) task, challenges due to large variations of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jie Lei , Zhao Liu , Zeyu Zou , Tong Li , Xu Juan , Shuaiwei Wang , Guoyu Yang , Zunlei Feng

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an active research domain that has shown great progress recently, notably thanks to the use of large deep learning models. However, such approaches are particularly energy intensive, which makes their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Sami Barchid , Benjamin Allaert , Amel Aissaoui , José Mennesson , Chaabane Djéraba

Recent works have shown that exploiting multi-scale representations deeply learned via convolutional neural networks (CNN) is of tremendous importance for accurate contour detection. This paper presents a novel approach for predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Dan Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci , Xiaogang Wang , Nicu Sebe

Recognizing the expressions of partially occluded faces is a challenging computer vision problem. Previous expression recognition methods, either overlooked this issue or resolved it using extreme assumptions. Motivated by the fact that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hui Ding , Peng Zhou , Rama Chellappa

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically learn data patterns to express face images for facial expression recognition (FER). However, they may ignore effect of facial segmentation of FER. In this paper, we propose a perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunwei Tian , Jingyuan Xie , Lingjun Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanning Zhang , David Zhang

Facial expressions are important cues to observe human emotions. Facial expression recognition has attracted many researchers for years, but it is still a challenging topic since expression features vary greatly with the head poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 S. D. Lalitha , K. K. Thyagharajan

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 action unit (AU) detection and facial expression (FE) recognition can be jointly viewed as affective facial behavior tasks, representing fine-grained muscular activations and coarse-grained holistic affective states, respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jia Li , Yu Zhang , Yin Chen , Zhenzhen Hu , Yong Li , Richang Hong , Shiguang Shan , Meng Wang

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

Most GCN-based methods model interacting individuals as independent graphs, neglecting their inherent inter-dependencies. Although recent approaches utilize predefined interaction adjacency matrices to integrate participants, these matrices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Chen Pang , Xuequan Lu , Qianyu Zhou , Lei Lyu

We consider the task of automated estimation of facial expression intensity. This involves estimation of multiple output variables (facial action units --- AUs) that are structurally dependent. Their structure arises from statistically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Robert Walecki , Ognjen , Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic , Björn Schuller , Maja Pantic

As an important research topic in computer vision, fine-grained classification which aims to recognition subordinate-level categories has attracted significant attention. We propose a novel region based ensemble learning network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Weikuang Li , Tian Wang , Chuanyun Wang , Guangcun Shan , Mengyi Zhang , Hichem Snoussi

Fully-Automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) from still images is a challenging task as it involves handling large interpersonal morphological differences, and as partial occlusions can occasionally happen. Furthermore, labelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Arnaud Dapogny , Kévin Bailly , Séverine Dubuisson

Human-object interaction segmentation is a fundamental task of daily activity understanding, which plays a crucial role in applications such as assistive robotics, healthcare, and autonomous systems. Most existing learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hao Xing , Kai Zhe Boey , Gordon Cheng

Human emotions involve basic and compound facial expressions. However, current research on facial expression recognition (FER) mainly focuses on basic expressions, and thus fails to address the diversity of human emotions in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xinyi Zou , Yan Yan , Jing-Hao Xue , Si Chen , Hanzi Wang

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic make people wear masks more frequently than ever. Current general face recognition system suffers from serious performance degradation,when encountering occluded scenes. The potential reason is that face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zhaohui Wang , Sufang Zhang , Jianteng Peng , Xinyi Wang , Yandong Guo

Micro-expressions (MEs) are spontaneous, unconscious facial expressions that have promising applications in various fields such as psychotherapy and national security. Thus, micro-expression recognition (MER) has attracted more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ruolin Li , Lu Wang , Tingting Yang , Lisheng Xu , Bingyang Ma , Yongchun Li , Hongchao Wei

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