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Facial Expression Recognition (FER) plays a pivotal role in understanding human emotional cues. However, traditional FER methods based on visual information have some limitations, such as preprocessing, feature extraction, and multi-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Hui Ma , Sen Lei , Turgay Celik , Heng-Chao Li

Emotion recognition from facial videos enables non-contact inference of human emotional states. Although facial expressions are widely used cues, they cannot fully reflect intrinsic affective states. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiwen Luo , Jia Li , Rencheng Song , Yu Liu , Juan Cheng

The infrared and visible images fusion (IVIF) is receiving increasing attention from both the research community and industry due to its excellent results in downstream applications. Existing deep learning approaches often utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tianpei Zhang , Jufeng Zhao , Yiming Zhu , Guangmang Cui , Yuhan Lyu

Facial action unit recognition is an important task for facial analysis. Owing to the complex collection environment, facial action unit recognition in the wild is still challenging. The 3rd competition on affective behavior analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shangfei Wang , Yanan Chang , Jiahe Wang

Emotion recognition plays an important role in human-computer interaction (HCI) and has been extensively studied for decades. Although tremendous improvements have been achieved for posed expressions, recognizing human emotions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Jie Cai , Zibo Meng , Ahmed Shehab Khan , Zhiyuan Li , James O'Reilly , Shizhong Han , Ping Liu , Min Chen , Yan Tong

Due to the subjective crowdsourcing annotations and the inherent inter-class similarity of facial expressions, the real-world Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets usually exhibit ambiguous annotation. To simplify the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Weijie Wang , Bo Li , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

This paper investigates unsupervised representation learning for facial expression analysis. We think Unsupervised Facial Expression Representation (UFER) deserves exploration and has the potential to address some key challenges in facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Fanglei Xue , Yifan Sun , Yi Yang

Facial action units (AUs), as defined in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), have received significant research interest owing to their diverse range of applications in facial state analysis. Current mainstream FAU recognition models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xuri Ge , Junchen Fu , Fuhai Chen , Shan An , Nicu Sebe , Joemon M. Jose

Human emotion recognition plays an important role in human-computer interaction. In this paper, we present our approach to the Valence-Arousal (VA) Estimation Challenge, Expression (Expr) Classification Challenge, and Action Unit (AU)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Weiwei Zhou , Jiada Lu , Zhaolong Xiong , Weifeng Wang

Facial expressions convey nonverbal cues which play an important role in interpersonal relations, and are widely used in behavior interpretation of emotions, cognitive science, and social interactions. In this paper we analyze different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Deepak Ghimire , Joonwhoan Lee , Ze-Nian Li , Sunghwan Jeong

Fingerspelling in sign language has been the means of communicating technical terms and proper nouns when they do not have dedicated sign language gestures. Automatic recognition of fingerspelling can help resolve communication barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Kamala Gajurel , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

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

We aim to construct a system that captures real-world facial images through the front camera on a laptop. The system is capable of processing/recognizing the captured image and predict a result in real-time. In this system, we exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ching-Da Wu , Li-Heng Chen

Identifying robust and accurate correspondences across images is a fundamental problem in computer vision that enables various downstream tasks. Recent semi-dense matching methods emphasize the effectiveness of fusing relevant cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hongkai Chen , Zixin Luo , Yurun Tian , Xuyang Bai , Ziyu Wang , Lei Zhou , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , David McKinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

Although state-of-the-art classifiers for facial expression recognition (FER) can achieve a high level of accuracy, they lack interpretability, an important feature for end-users. Experts typically associate spatial action units (AUs) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

In many domains, including online education, healthcare, security, and human-computer interaction, facial emotion recognition (FER) is essential. Real-world FER is still difficult despite its significance because of some factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Deeptimaan Banerjee , Prateek Gothwal , Ashis Kumer Biswas

In recent years, deep learning has achieved innovative advancements in various fields, including the analysis of human emotions and behaviors. Initiatives such as the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Seongjae Min , Junseok Yang , Sangjun Lim , Junyong Lee , Sangwon Lee , Sejoon Lim

The rapid advancement in deep learning over the past decade has transformed Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems, as newer methods have been proposed that outperform the existing traditional handcrafted techniques. However, such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Preyansh Agrawal , Jagat Sesh Challa , Pratik Narang

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) holds significant importance in human-computer interactions. Existing cross-domain FER methods often transfer knowledge solely from a single labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, neglecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yuxiang Yang , Lu Wen , Xinyi Zeng , Yuanyuan Xu , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

Previous methods for dynamic facial expression in the wild are mainly based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), whose local operations ignore the long-range dependencies in videos. To solve this problem, we propose the spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li