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Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a critical task within computer vision with diverse applications across various domains. Addressing the challenge of limited FER datasets, which hampers the generalization capability of expression…

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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…

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This paper describes the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition, which is part of the respective Workshop held in conjunction with ECCV 2024. The 7th ABAW Competition addresses novel challenges in understanding human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Irene Kotsia , Abhinav Dhall , Shreya Ghosh , Chunchang Shao , Guanyu Hu

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection is a crucial task in affective computing and social robotics as it helps to identify emotions expressed through facial expressions. Anatomically, there are innumerable correlations between AUs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Xin Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Xuesong Niu , Jingang Shi , Zitong Yu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

The paper describes our proposed methodology for the six basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2022. In Learing from Synthetic Data(LSD) task, facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Shuyi Mao , Xinpeng Li , Junyao Chen , Xiaojiang Peng

For computers to recognize human emotions, expression classification is an equally important problem in the human-computer interaction area. In the 3rd Affective Behavior Analysis In-The-Wild competition, the task of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Kim Ngan Phan , Hong-Hai Nguyen , Van-Thong Huynh , Soo-Hyung Kim

The recently developed Equine Facial Action Coding System (EquiFACS) provides a precise and exhaustive, but laborious, manual labelling method of facial action units of the horse. To automate parts of this process, we propose a Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Zhenghong Li , Sofia Broomé , Pia Haubro Andersen , Hedvig Kjellström

Human affect recognition is an essential part of natural human-computer interaction. However, current methods are still in their infancy, especially for in-the-wild data. In this work, we introduce our submission to the Affective Behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Felix Kuhnke , Lars Rumberg , Jörn Ostermann

The detection of facial action units (AUs) has been studied as it has the competition due to the wide-ranging applications thereof. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for the AU detection from a single input image by grasping the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Ziqiang Shi , Liu Liu , Zhongling Liu , Rujie Liu , Xiaoyu Mi , and Kentaro Murase

This paper describes the 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition, which is part of the respective Workshop held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2024. The 6th ABAW Competition addresses contemporary challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Dimitrios Kollias , Panagiotis Tzirakis , Alan Cowen , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Irene Kotsia , Alice Baird , Chris Gagne , Chunchang Shao , Guanyu Hu

Facial action units (AUs) play an indispensable role in human emotion analysis. We observe that although AU-based high-level emotion analysis is urgently needed by real-world applications, frame-level AU results provided by previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yingjie Chen , Jiarui Zhang , Tao Wang , Yun Liang

Current Facial Action Unit (FAU) detection methods generally encounter difficulties due to the scarcity of labeled video training data and the limited number of training face IDs, which renders the trained feature extractor insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Qiaoqiao Jin , Rui Shi , Yishun Dou , Bingbing Ni

The Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW2) 2021 Competition is the second -- following the first very successful ABAW Competition held in conjunction with IEEE FG 2020- Competition that aims at automatically analyzing affect. ABAW2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Dimitrios Kollias , Irene Kotsia , Elnar Hajiyev , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Human emotion recognition plays a crucial role in facilitating seamless interactions between humans and computers. In this paper, we present our innovative methodology for tackling the Valence-Arousal (VA) Estimation Challenge, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Weiwei Zhou , Chenkun Ling , Zefeng Cai

As a fine-grained and local expression behavior measurement, facial action unit (FAU) analysis (e.g., detection and intensity estimation) has been documented for its time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone annotation. Thus a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bowen Ma , Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Yu Ding , Zeng Zhao , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection seeks to recognize subtle facial muscle activations as defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A primary challenge w.r.t AU detection is the effective learning of discriminative and generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yong Li , Yi Ren , Yizhe Zhang , Wenhua Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Muyun Jiang , Guo-Sen Xie , Cuntai Guan

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

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In this paper, we present our approach to addressing the challenges of the 7th ABAW competition. The competition comprises three sub-challenges: Valence Arousal (VA) estimation, Expression (Expr) classification, and Action Unit (AU)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Kang Shen , Xuxiong Liu , Boyan Wang , Jun Yao , Xin Liu , Yujie Guan , Yu Wang , Gengchen Li , Xiao Sun

Facial action units (AUs) are essential to decode human facial expressions. Researchers have focused on training AU detectors with a variety of features and classifiers. However, several issues remain. These are spatial representation,…

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