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In this paper, Deterministic Cellular Automata (DCA) based video shot classification and retrieval is proposed. The deterministic 2D Cellular automata model captures the human facial expressions, both spontaneous and posed. The determinism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-09-13 P. Geetha , Vasumathi Narayanan

Facial expressions are widely used in the behavioral interpretation of emotions, cognitive science, and social interactions. In this paper, we present a novel method for fully automatic facial expression recognition in facial image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Deepak Ghimire , Joonwhoan Lee

Human affective behavior analysis plays a vital role in human-computer interaction (HCI) systems. In this paper, we introduce our submission to the CVPR 2023 Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Yu , Renda Li , Zhongpeng Cai , Gongpeng Zhao , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Facial motion capture in mixed reality headsets enables real-time avatar animation, allowing users to convey non-verbal cues during virtual interactions. However, as facial motion data constitutes a behavioral biometric, its use raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Adriano Castro , Simon Hanisch , Matin Fallahi , Thorsten Strufe

As one of the most important affective signals, facial affect analysis (FAA) is essential for developing human-computer interaction systems. Early methods focus on extracting appearance and geometry features associated with human affects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yang Liu , Xingming Zhang , Yante Li , Jinzhao Zhou , Xin Li , Guoying Zhao

Facial pain expression is an important modality for assessing pain, especially when the patient's verbal ability to communicate is impaired. The facial muscle-based action units (AUs), which are defined by the Facial Action Coding System…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana Wilkie

Human emotions can be inferred from facial expressions. However, the annotations of facial expressions are often highly noisy in common emotion coding models, including categorical and dimensional ones. To reduce human labelling effort on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Siwei Zhang , Zhiwu Huang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

A person's face discloses important information about their affective state. Although there has been extensive research on recognition of facial expressions, the performance of existing approaches is challenged by facial occlusions. Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Behnaz Nojavanasghari , Charles. E. Hughes , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Louis-philippe Morency

Facial emotion expression for virtual characters is used in a wide variety of areas. Often, the primary reason to use emotion expression is not to study emotion expression generation per se, but to use emotion expression in an application…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Joost Broekens , Chao Qu , Willem-Paul Brinkman

This paper describes an approach to the facial action unit (AU) detection. In this work, we present our submission to the Field Affective Behavior Analysis (ABAW) 2021 competition. The proposed method uses the pre-trained JAA model as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Chenggong Zhang , Juan Song , Qingyang Zhang , Weilong Dong , Ruomeng Ding , Zhilei Liu

Affective computing is a field of great interest in many computer vision applications, including video surveillance, behaviour analysis, and human-robot interaction. Most of the existing literature has addressed this field by analysing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Danilo Avola , Luigi Cinque , Alessio Fagioli , Gian Luca Foresti , Cristiano Massaroni

Recognition of expressions of emotions and affect from facial images is a well-studied research problem in the fields of affective computing and computer vision with a large number of datasets available containing facial images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Tian Xu , Jennifer White , Sinan Kalkan , Hatice Gunes

Affective behavior analysis plays an important role in human-computer interaction, customer marketing, health monitoring. ABAW Challenge and Aff-Wild2 dataset raise the new challenge for classifying basic emotions and regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Nhu-Tai Do , Tram-Tran Nguyen-Quynh , Soo-Hyung Kim

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, subtle facial expressions that reveal concealed emotions, offering key behavioral cues for social interaction. Characterized by short duration, low intensity, and spontaneity, MEs have been mostly studied…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jingting Li , Shaoyuan Lu , Yan Wang , Zizhao Dong , Su-Jing Wang , Xiaolan Fu

We address the problem of facial expression editing by controling the relative variation of facial action-unit (AU) from the same person. This enables us to edit this specific person's expression in a fine-grained, continuous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mengting Wei , Tuomas Varanka , Xingxun Jiang , Huai-Qian Khor , Guoying Zhao

Deep learning vision models excel with abundant supervision, but many applications face label scarcity and class imbalance. Controllable image editing can augment scarce labeled data, yet edits often introduce artifacts and entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joris Kirchner , Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Chirag Raman

Facial affective behavior analysis is important for human-computer interaction. 5th ABAW competition includes three challenges from Aff-Wild2 database. Three common facial affective analysis tasks are involved, i.e. valence-arousal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Shangfei Wang , Yanan Chang , Yi Wu , Xiangyu Miao , Jiaqiang Wu , Zhouan Zhu , Jiahe Wang , Yufei Xiao

In recent years, the increasing availability of personal data has raised concerns regarding privacy and security. One of the critical processes to address these concerns is data anonymization, which aims to protect individual privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Fabio Hellmann , Silvan Mertes , Mohamed Benouis , Alexander Hustinx , Tzung-Chien Hsieh , Cristina Conati , Peter Krawitz , Elisabeth André

In this paper, we present our advanced solutions to the two sub-challenges of Affective Behavior Analysis in the wild (ABAW) 2023: the Emotional Reaction Intensity (ERI) Estimation Challenge and Expression (Expr) Classification Challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jia Li , Yin Chen , Xuesong Zhang , Jiantao Nie , Ziqiang Li , Yangchen Yu , Yan Zhang , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Affective computing and cognitive theory are widely used in modern human-computer interaction scenarios. Human faces, as the most prominent and easily accessible features, have attracted great attention from researchers. Since humans have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Wenxuan Wang , Yanwei Fu , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue