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Facial Micro-Expressions (MEs) are spontaneous, involuntary facial movements when a person experiences an emotion but deliberately or unconsciously attempts to conceal his or her genuine emotions. Recently, ME recognition has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Chengyu Guo , Jingyun Liang , Geng Zhan , Zhong Liu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Unlike prevalent facial expressions, micro expressions have subtle, involuntary muscle movements which are short-lived in nature. These minute muscle movements reflect true emotions of a person. Due to the short duration and low intensity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh , Subrahmanyam Murala

Emotion recognition is involved in several real-world applications. With an increase in available modalities, automatic understanding of emotions is being performed more accurately. The success in Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Riccardo Franceschini , Enrico Fini , Cigdem Beyan , Alessandro Conti , Federica Arrigoni , Elisa Ricci

Temporal information can provide useful features for recognizing facial expressions. However, to manually design useful features requires a lot of effort. In this paper, to reduce this effort, a deep learning technique which is regarded as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Heechul Jung , Sihaeng Lee , Sunjeong Park , Injae Lee , Chunghyun Ahn , Junmo Kim

In facial action unit (AU) recognition tasks, regional feature learning and AU relation modeling are two effective aspects which are worth exploring. However, the limited representation capacity of regional features makes it difficult for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jingwei Yan , Boyuan Jiang , Jingjing Wang , Qiang Li , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

Micro-expression recognition (MER) presents a significant challenge due to the transient and subtle nature of the motion changes involved. In recent years, deep learning methods based on attention mechanisms have made some breakthroughs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Lijun Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Weicheng Tang , Xinzhi Sun , Xiaomeng Wang , Zhanshan Li

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is a highly challenging task in affective computing. With the reduced-sized micro-expression (ME) input that contains key information based on key-frame indexes, key-frame-based methods have significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zheyuan Zhang , Weihao Tang , Hong Chen

The generalization ability of Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for biometrics drops greatly due to the adverse effects of various occlusions. To this end, we propose a novel unified framework integrated the merits of both CNNs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Min Ren , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

We propose a novel landmarks-assisted collaborative end-to-end deep framework for automatic 4D FER. Using 4D face scan data, we calculate its various geometrical images, and afterwards use rank pooling to generate their dynamic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Muzammil Behzad , Nhat Vo , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Micro-expression has emerged as a promising modality in affective computing due to its high objectivity in emotion detection. Despite the higher recognition accuracy provided by the deep learning models, there are still significant scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

Image landmark detection aims to automatically identify the locations of predefined fiducial points. Despite recent success in this field, higher-ordered structural modeling to capture implicit or explicit relationships among anatomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Weijian Li , Yuhang Lu , Kang Zheng , Haofu Liao , Chihung Lin , Jiebo Luo , Chi-Tung Cheng , Jing Xiao , Le Lu , Chang-Fu Kuo , Shun Miao

Micro-expression recognition is one of the most challenging topics in affective computing. It aims to recognize tiny facial movements difficult for humans to perceive in a brief period, i.e., 0.25 to 0.5 seconds. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Chi Nhan Duong , Xin Li , Susan Gauch , Han-Seok Seo , Khoa Luu

We propose an end-to-end architecture for facial expression recognition. Our model learns an optimal tree topology for facial landmarks, whose traversal generates a sequence from which we obtain an embedding to feed a sequential learner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Mojtaba Kolahdouzi , Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam , Ali Etemad

Purpose: Semantic segmentation and landmark detection are fundamental tasks of medical image processing, facilitating further analysis of anatomical objects. Although deep learning-based pixel-wise classification has set a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

Micro-expressions are rapid and involuntary facial expressions, which indicate the suppressed or concealed emotions. Recently, the research on automatic micro-expression (ME) spotting obtains increasing attention. ME spotting is a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Xiaopeng Hong , Thuong-Khanh Tran , Guoying Zhao

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

Micro-expression recognition plays a pivotal role in understanding hidden emotions and has applications across various fields. Traditional recognition methods assume access to all training data at once, but real-world scenarios involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhengqin Lai , Xiaopeng Hong , Yabin Wang , Xiaobai Li

Facial expression recognition, as a vital computer vision task, is garnering significant attention and undergoing extensive research. Although facial expression recognition algorithms demonstrate impressive performance on high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jingyi Shi

Facial expression is related to facial muscle contractions and different muscle movements correspond to different emotional states. For micro-expression recognition, the muscle movements are usually subtle, which has a negative impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Micro-expressions are brief, involuntary facial movements that typically last less than half a second and often reveal genuine emotions. Accurately recognizing these subtle expressions is critical for applications in psychology, security,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo