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Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

We propose a novel method for salient object detection in different images. Our method integrates spatial features for efficient and robust representation to capture meaningful information about the salient objects. We then train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Abdullah J. Alzahrani , Hina Afridi

Most of existing salient object detection models have achieved great progress by aggregating multi-level features extracted from convolutional neural networks. However, because of the different receptive fields of different convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Jun Wei , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang

We present a new end-to-end network architecture for facial expression recognition with an attention model. It focuses attention in the human face and uses a Gaussian space representation for expression recognition. We devise this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Most of the current salient object detection approaches use deeper networks with large backbones to produce more accurate predictions, which results in a significant increase in computational complexity. A great number of network designs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijie Li , Hewei Wang , Aggelos Katsaggelos

Most of the existing deep neural nets on automatic facial expression recognition focus on a set of predefined emotion classes, where the amount of training data has the biggest impact on performance. However, in the standard setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Anca-Nicoleta Ciubotaru , Arnout Devos , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Maria Gabrani

Compound Expression Recognition (CER) plays a crucial role in interpersonal interactions. Due to the existence of Compound Expressions , human emotional expressions are complex, requiring consideration of both local and global facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jun Yu , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

In recent years, deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable success in various domains, such as computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, the generalization capabilities of these models can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Neelesh Mungoli

How to effectively fuse cross-modal information is the key problem for RGB-D salient object detection. Early fusion and the result fusion schemes fuse RGB and depth information at the input and output stages, respectively, hence incur the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Nian Liu , Ni Zhang , Ling Shao , Junwei Han

Despite the advances in the field of Face Recognition (FR), the precision of these methods is not yet sufficient. To improve the FR performance, this paper proposes a technique to aggregate the outputs of two state-of-the-art (SOTA) deep FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mohammad Akyash , Ali Zafari , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Facial expression recognition (FER) is still one challenging research due to the small inter-class discrepancy in the facial expression data. In view of the significance of facial crucial regions for FER, many existing researches utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Guanghui Shi , Shasha Mao , Shuiping Gou , Dandan Yan , Licheng Jiao , Lin Xiong

We propose a deep learning-based feature fusion approach for facial computing including face recognition as well as gender, race and age detection. Instead of training a single classifier on face images to classify them based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Wei Li , Zhigang Zhu

This study investigates the efficacy of facial micro-expressions as a soft biometric for enhancing person recognition, aiming to broaden the understanding of the subject and its potential applications. We propose a deep learning approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Tuval Kay , Yuval Ringel , Khen Cohen , Mor-Avi Azulay , David Mendlovic

Deriving an effective facial expression recognition component is important for a successful human-computer interaction system. Nonetheless, recognizing facial expression remains a challenging task. This paper describes a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Mundher Al-Shabi , Wooi Ping Cheah , Tee Connie

Facial expression transfer between two unpaired images is a challenging problem, as fine-grained expression is typically tangled with other facial attributes. Most existing methods treat expression transfer as an application of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zhiwen Shao , Hengliang Zhu , Junshu Tang , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

This paper targets to explore the inter-subject variations eliminated facial expression representation in the compressed video domain. Most of the previous methods process the RGB images of a sequence, while the off-the-shelf and valuable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaofeng Liu , Linghao Jin , Xu Han , Jun Lu , Jane You , Lingsheng Kong

This paper presents a novel meta learning framework for feature selection (FS) based on fuzzy similarity. The proposed method aims to recommend the best FS method from four candidate FS methods for any given dataset. This is achieved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Zixiao Shen , Xin Chen , Jonathan M. Garibaldi

This paper presents an extensive exploration and comparative analysis of lightweight face recognition (FR) models, specifically focusing on MobileFaceNet and its modified variant, MMobileFaceNet. The need for efficient FR models on devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Ahmad Hassanpour , Yasamin Kowsari

Feature selection eliminates redundancy among features to improve downstream task performance while reducing computational overhead. Existing methods often struggle to capture intricate feature interactions and adapt across diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rui Liu , Tao Zhe , Yanjie Fu , Feng Xia , Ted Senator , Dongjie Wang