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Speech Emotion Recognition is a crucial area of research in human-computer interaction. While significant work has been done in this field, many state-of-the-art networks struggle to accurately recognize emotions in speech when the data is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Rashedul Hasan , Meher Nigar , Nursadul Mamun , Sayan Paul

This paper introduces LLDif, a novel diffusion-based facial expression recognition (FER) framework tailored for extremely low-light (LL) environments. Images captured under such conditions often suffer from low brightness and significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Micro-Expression Recognition has become challenging, as it is extremely difficult to extract the subtle facial changes of micro-expressions. Recently, several approaches proposed several expression-shared features algorithms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Xiaohua Huang , Feifei Zhang , Zhihong Zhang

The domain of computer vision has experienced significant advancements in facial-landmark detection, becoming increasingly essential across various applications such as augmented reality, facial recognition, and emotion analysis. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zong-Wei Hong , Yu-Chen Lin

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

Dynamic facial expression generation from natural language is a crucial task in Computer Graphics, with applications in Animation, Virtual Avatars, and Human-Computer Interaction. However, current generative models suffer from datasets that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yaron Aloni , Rotem Shalev-Arkushin , Yonatan Shafir , Guy Tevet , Ohad Fried , Amit Haim Bermano

Deep Learning has emerged as a promising approach for skin lesion analysis. However, existing methods mostly rely on fully supervised learning, requiring extensive labeled data, which is challenging and costly to obtain. To alleviate this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Siyamalan Manivannan

This paper presents MMA-MRNNet, a novel deep learning architecture for dynamic multi-output Facial Expression Intensity Estimation (FEIE) from video data. Traditional approaches to this task often rely on complex 3-D CNNs, which require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Dimitrios Kollias , Andreas Psaroudakis , Anastasios Arsenos , Paraskevi Theofilou , Chunchang Shao , Guanyu Hu , Ioannis Patras

While diffusion models can learn complex distributions, sampling requires a computationally expensive iterative process. Existing distillation methods enable efficient sampling, but have notable limitations, such as performance degradation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Sirui Xie , Zhisheng Xiao , Diederik P Kingma , Tingbo Hou , Ying Nian Wu , Kevin Patrick Murphy , Tim Salimans , Ben Poole , Ruiqi Gao

Self-supervised representation learning has gained increasing attention for strong generalization ability without relying on paired datasets. However, it has not been explored sufficiently for facial representation. Self-supervised facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ruian He , Zhen Xing , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

Compound Expression Recognition (CER) is crucial for understanding human emotions and improving human-computer interaction. However, CER faces challenges due to the complexity of facial expressions and the difficulty of capturing subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jun Yu , Xilong Lu

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as an important component of human-computer interaction systems. Despite recent advancements in FER, performance often drops significantly for non-frontal facial images. We propose Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

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

As we exceed upon the procedures for modelling the different aspects of behaviour, expression recognition has become a key field of research in Human Computer Interactions. Expression recognition in the wild is a very interesting problem…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Sowmya Rasipuram , Junaid Hamid Bhat , Anutosh Maitra

In this article, the results of our team for the fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition are presented. The usage of the pre-trained convolutional networks from the EmotiEffNet family for frame-level feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andrey V. Savchenko

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) plays a crucial role in computer vision and finds extensive applications across various fields. This paper aims to present our approach for the upcoming 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jun Yu , Zhihong Wei , Zhongpeng Cai , Gongpeng Zhao , Zerui Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task, arguably because of large intra-class variations and high inter-class similarities. The core drawback of the existing approaches is the lack of ability to discriminate the changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Yanwei Li , Xingang Wang , Shilei Zhang , Lingxi Xie , Wenqi Wu , Hongyuan Yu , Zheng Zhu

This paper demonstrates a novel approach to improve face-recognition pose-invariance using semantic-segmentation features. The proposed Seg-Distilled-ID network jointly learns identification and semantic-segmentation tasks, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ali Hassani , Zaid El Shair , Rafi Ud Duala Refat , Hafiz Malik

Current state-of-the-art models for automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) are based on very deep neural networks that are effective but rather expensive to train. Given the dynamic conditions of FER, this characteristic hinders such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Alessandra Sciutti

In the computer research area, facial expression recognition is a hot research problem. Recent years, the research has moved from the lab environment to in-the-wild circumstances. It is challenging, especially under extreme poses. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Fei Yang , Qian Zhang , Chi Zheng , Guoping Qiu