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In this paper, we present our submission to 3rd Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) challenge. Learningcomplex interactions among multimodal sequences is critical to recognise dimensional affect from in-the-wild audiovisual data.…

Continuous emotion recognition in terms of valence and arousal under in-the-wild (ITW) conditions remains a challenging problem due to large variations in appearance, head pose, illumination, occlusions, and subject-specific patterns of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Elena Ryumina , Maxim Markitantov , Alexandr Axyonov , Dmitry Ryumin , Mikhail Dolgushin , Denis Dresvyanskiy , Alexey Karpov

Detecting action units (AUs) on human faces is challenging because various AUs make subtle facial appearance change over various regions at different scales. Current works have attempted to recognize AUs by emphasizing important regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Junhai Yong

Balancing methods for single-label data cannot be applied to multi-label problems as they would also resample the samples with high occurrences. We propose to reformulate this problem as an optimization problem in order to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ines Rieger , Jaspar Pahl , Dominik Seuss

Automated deception detection systems can enhance health, justice, and security in society by helping humans detect deceivers in high-stakes situations across medical and legal domains, among others. This paper presents a novel analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Leena Mathur , Maja J Matarić

Micro-expressions are brief spontaneous facial expressions that appear on a face when a person conceals an emotion, making them different to normal facial expressions in subtlety and duration. Currently, emotion classes within the CASME II…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Adrian K. Davison , Walied Merghani , Moi Hoon Yap

The paper describes our proposed methodology for the seven basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2021. In this task, facial expression recognition (FER) methods aim to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shuyi Mao , Xinqi Fan , Xiaojiang Peng

As emotions play a central role in human communication, automatic emotion recognition has attracted increasing attention in the last two decades. While multimodal systems enjoy high performances on lab-controlled data, they are still far…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Denis Dresvyanskiy , Maxim Markitantov , Jiawei Yu , Peitong Li , Heysem Kaya , Alexey Karpov

Much of the work on automatic facial expression recognition relies on databases containing a certain number of emotion classes and their exaggerated facial configurations (generally six prototypical facial expressions), based on Ekman's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Wenjing Yan , Shan Li , Chengtao Que , JiQuan Pei , Weihong Deng

Facial action unit (AU) detection and face alignment are two highly correlated tasks, since facial landmarks can provide precise AU locations to facilitate the extraction of meaningful local features for AU detection. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhiwen Shao , Zhilei Liu , Jianfei Cai , Lizhuang Ma

This paper describes the proposed methodology, data used and the results of our participation in the ChallengeTrack 2 (Expr Challenge Track) of the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2020. In this competition, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Hafiq Anas , Bacha Rehman , Wee Hong Ong

This paper proposes a supervised learning approach to jointly perform facial Action Unit (AU) localisation and intensity estimation. Contrary to previous works that try to learn an unsupervised representation of the Action Unit regions, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Enrique Sanchez-Lozano , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Michel Valstar

Facial action units (AUs), as defined in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), have received significant research interest owing to their diverse range of applications in facial state analysis. Current mainstream FAU recognition models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xuri Ge , Junchen Fu , Fuhai Chen , Shan An , Nicu Sebe , Joemon M. Jose

Applications of an efficient emotion recognition system can be found in several domains such as medicine, driver fatigue surveillance, social robotics, and human-computer interaction. Appraising human emotional states, behaviors, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Savinay Nagendra , Prapti Panigrahi

The field of Automatic Facial Expression Analysis has grown rapidly in recent years. However, despite progress in new approaches as well as benchmarking efforts, most evaluations still focus on either posed expressions, near-frontal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Michel F. Valstar , Enrique Sánchez-Lozano , Jeffrey F. Cohn , László A. Jeni , Jeffrey M. Girard , Zheng Zhang , Lijun Yin , Maja Pantic

Although state-of-the-art classifiers for facial expression recognition (FER) can achieve a high level of accuracy, they lack interpretability, an important feature for end-users. Experts typically associate spatial action units (AUs) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

Facial Action Units (AUs) are essential for conveying psychological states and emotional expressions. While automatic AU detection systems leveraging deep learning have progressed, they often overfit to specific datasets and individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yong Li , Yi Ren , Xuesong Niu , Yi Ding , Xiu-Shen Wei , Cuntai Guan

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Facial action units (AUs) recognition is essential for emotion analysis and has been widely applied in mental state analysis. Existing work on AU recognition usually requires big face dataset with AU labels; however, manual AU annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xuesong Niu , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Automatic facial behavior analysis has a long history of studies in the intersection of computer vision, physiology and psychology. However it is only recently, with the collection of large-scale datasets and powerful machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou