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Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent agents and systems. However, key challenges remain in utilizing FER in real-world contexts, including ensuring user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sanjeev Nahulanthran , Leimin Tian , Dana Kulić , Mor Vered

Emotional Intelligence in Human-Computer Interaction has attracted increasing attention from researchers in multidisciplinary research fields including psychology, computer vision, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and related…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Amine Djerghri , Ahmed Rachid Hazourli , Alice Othmani

Facial expression data is characterized by a significant imbalance, with most collected data showing happy or neutral expressions and fewer instances of fear or disgust. This imbalance poses challenges to facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuhang Zhang , Yaqi Li , Lixiong Qin , Xuannan Liu , Weihong Deng

Recently, deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) methods have attracted considerable attention and they usually require large-scale labelled training data. Nonetheless, the publicly available facial expression databases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Yan Yan , Ying Huang , Si Chen , Chunhua Shen , Hanzi Wang

Facial expression recognition (FER) algorithms classify facial expressions into emotions such as happy, sad, or angry. An evaluative challenge facing FER algorithms is the fall in performance when detecting spontaneous expressions compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Rina Khan , Catherine Stinson

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have revolutionized numerous research fields, including computer vision and affective computing. As a pivotal challenge in this interdisciplinary domain, facial expression recognition (FER) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Fan Zhang , Haoxuan Li , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Zheng Lian , Hao Wu , Zhihong Zhu , Yuan Gao , Qiankun Li , Yefeng Zheng , Zhouchen Lin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Facial expressions recognition (FER) of 3D face scans has received a significant amount of attention in recent years. Most of the facial expression recognition methods have been proposed using mainly 2D images. These methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Walid Hariri , Nadir Farah , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

Facial Emotion Recognition is an inherently difficult problem, due to vast differences in facial structures of individuals and ambiguity in the emotion displayed by a person. Recently, a lot of work is being done in the field of Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Aakash Saroop , Pathik Ghugare , Sashank Mathamsetty , Vaibhav Vasani

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown to outperform traditional methods in various visual recognition tasks including Facial Expression Recognition (FER). In spite of efforts made to improve the accuracy of FER systems using DNN, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild is extremely challenging due to occlusions, variant head poses, face deformation and motion blur under unconstrained conditions. Although substantial progresses have been made in automatic FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

In 2D+3D facial expression recognition (FER), existing methods generate multi-view geometry maps to enhance the depth feature representation. However, this may introduce false estimations due to local plane fitting from incomplete point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yang Jiao , Yi Niu , Trac D. Tran , Guangming Shi

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) plays a critical role in affective computing and human-computer interaction. Although existing methods achieve comparable performance, they inevitably suffer from performance degradation under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Feng-Qi Cui , Anyang Tong , Jinyang Huang , Jie Zhang , Dan Guo , Zhi Liu , Meng Wang

Bringing empathy to a computerized system could significantly improve the quality of human-computer communications, as soon as machines would be able to understand customer intentions and better serve their needs. According to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Kamil Akhmetov

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has been a challenging task for decades. Many of the existing works use hand-crafted features such as LBP, HOG, LPQ, and Histogram of Optical Flow (HOF) combined with classifiers such as Support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task due to two major problems: the presence of inter-subject variations in facial expression recognition dataset and impure expressions posed by human subjects. In this paper we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kamran Ali , Ilkin Isler , Charles Hughes

This work describes different strategies to generate unsupervised representations obtained through the concept of self-taught learning for facial emotion recognition (FER). The idea is to create complementary representations promoting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Bruna Delazeri , Leonardo L. Veras , Alceu de S. Britto , Jean Paul Barddal , Alessandro L. Koerich

Facial expression recognition is an essential task for various applications, including emotion detection, mental health analysis, and human-machine interactions. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal facial expression recognition method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun-Hwa Kim , Namho Kim , Chee Sun Won

The ever-increasing demands for intuitive interactions in Virtual Reality has triggered a boom in the realm of Facial Expression Recognition (FER). To address the limitations in existing approaches (e.g., narrow receptive fields and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yande Li , Mingjie Wang , Minglun Gong , Yonggang Lu , Li Liu

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