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Facial Action Coding System consists of 44 action units (AUs) and more than 7000 combinations. Hidden Markov models (HMMs) classifier has been used successfully to recognize facial action units (AUs) and expressions due to its ability to…

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Facial action units (AUs) detection is fundamental to facial expression analysis. As AU occurs only in a small area of the face, region-based learning has been widely recognized useful for AU detection. Most region-based studies focus on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yao Xia

The Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) 2020 Competition is the first Competition aiming at automatic analysis of the three main behavior tasks of valence-arousal estimation, basic expression recognition and action unit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Dimitrios Kollias , Attila Schulc , Elnar Hajiyev , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

This paper presents a subject-independent facial action unit (AU) detection method by introducing the concept of relative AU detection, for scenarios where the neutral face is not provided. We propose a new classification objective function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Mahmoud Khademi , Louis-Philippe Morency

The quantified measurement of facial expressiveness is crucial to analyze human affective behavior at scale. Unfortunately, methods for expressiveness quantification at the video frame-level are largely unexplored, unlike the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Md Taufeeq Uddin , Shaun Canavan

The fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition is part of the respective ABAW Workshop which will be held in conjunction with IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023. The 5th ABAW…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Dimitrios Kollias , Panagiotis Tzirakis , Alice Baird , Alan Cowen , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In this paper, we describe the results of the HSEmotion team in two tasks of the seventh Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition, namely, multi-task learning for simultaneous prediction of facial expression, valence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Andrey V. Savchenko

In this paper, we consider the problem of real-time video-based facial emotion analytics, namely, facial expression recognition, prediction of valence and arousal and detection of action unit points. We propose the novel frame-level emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Andrey V. Savchenko

In this paper, we present our solution and experiment result for the Multi-Task Learning Challenge of the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild(ABAW7) Competition. This challenge consists of three tasks: action unit detection, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xiaodong Li , Wenchao Du , Hongyu Yang

This paper presents the results of the SUN team for the Compound Expressions Recognition Challenge of the 6th ABAW Competition. We propose a novel audio-visual method for compound expression recognition. Our method relies on emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Elena Ryumina , Maxim Markitantov , Dmitry Ryumin , Heysem Kaya , Alexey Karpov

The fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition has multiple challenges such as Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge, Expression Classification Challenge, Action Unit Detection Challenge, Emotional Reaction Intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Darshan Gera , Badveeti Naveen Siva Kumar , Bobbili Veerendra Raj Kumar , S Balasubramanian

This paper presents our submission to the Expression Classification Challenge of the fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition. In our method, multimodal feature combinations extracted by several different pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chuanhe Liu , Xinjie Zhang , Xiaolong Liu , Tenggan Zhang , Liyu Meng , Yuchen Liu , Yuanyuan Deng , Wenqiang Jiang

Detecting facial action units (AU) is one of the fundamental steps in automatic recognition of facial expression of emotions and cognitive states. Though there have been a variety of approaches proposed for this task, most of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihee Lee , Ognjen Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic , Maja Pantic

We present our contribution to the 8th ABAW challenge at CVPR 2025, where we tackle valence-arousal estimation, emotion recognition, and facial action unit detection as three independent challenges. Our approach leverages the well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Josep Cabacas-Maso , Elena Ortega-Beltrán , Ismael Benito-Altamirano , Carles Ventura

Isolated facial movements, so-called Action Units, can describe combined emotions or physical states such as pain. As datasets are limited and mostly imbalanced, we present an approach incorporating a multi-label class balancing algorithm.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Jaspar Pahl , Ines Rieger , Dominik Seuss

People naturally understand emotions, thus permitting a machine to do the same could open new paths for human-computer interaction. Facial expressions can be very useful for emotion recognition techniques, as these are the biggest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Pietro B. S. Masur , Willams Costa , Lucas S. Figueredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Human affective recognition is an important factor in human-computer interaction. However, the method development with in-the-wild data is not yet accurate enough for practical usage. In this paper, we introduce the affective recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Sachihiro Youoku , Yuushi Toyoda , Takahisa Yamamoto , Junya Saito , Ryosuke Kawamura , Xiaoyu Mi , Kentaro Murase

Expressions and facial action units (AUs) are two levels of facial behavior descriptors. Expression auxiliary information has been widely used to improve the AU detection performance. However, most existing expression representations can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Hao Zeng , Wei Chen , Zhigang Deng , Yu Ding

This article presents our results for the sixth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition. To improve the trustworthiness of facial analysis, we study the possibility of using pre-trained deep models that extract reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Andrey V. Savchenko