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Current FER (Facial Expression Recognition) dataset is mostly labeled by emotion categories, such as happy, angry, sad, fear, disgust, surprise, and neutral which are limited in expressiveness. However, future affective computing requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Huo , Yun Ge

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

Emotion recognition in user-generated videos plays an important role in human-centered computing. Existing methods mainly employ traditional two-stage shallow pipeline, i.e. extracting visual and/or audio features and training classifiers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Sicheng Zhao , Yunsheng Ma , Yang Gu , Jufeng Yang , Tengfei Xing , Pengfei Xu , Runbo Hu , Hua Chai , Kurt Keutzer

Emotion has an important role in daily life, as it helps people better communicate with and understand each other more efficiently. Facial expressions can be classified into 7 categories: angry, disgust, fear, happy, neutral, sad and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Shaoyuan Xu , Yang Cheng , Qian Lin , Jan P. Allebach

Facial expression recognition is a crucial component in enhancing human-computer interaction and developing emotion-aware systems. Real-time detection and interpretation of facial expressions have become increasingly important for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Talha Enes Koksal , Abdurrahman Gumus

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a crucial task in computer vision with wide range of applications including human computer interaction, surveillance, and assistive technologies. However, challenges such as occlusion, expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Debasis Maji , Debaditya Barman

In the context of artificial intelligence, the inherent human attribute of engaging in logical reasoning to facilitate decision-making is mirrored by the concept of explainability, which pertains to the ability of a model to provide a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Francesco Di Luzio , Antonello Rosato , Massimo Panella

This paper presents a novel multi-identity face reenactment framework, named FReeNet, to transfer facial expressions from an arbitrary source face to a target face with a shared model. The proposed FReeNet consists of two parts: Unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jiangning Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Mengmeng Wang , Yusu Pan , Liang Liu , Yong Liu , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan

Emotional Video Captioning (EVC) is an emerging task, which aims to describe factual content with the intrinsic emotions expressed in videos. Existing works perceive global emotional cues and then combine with video content to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Weidong Chen , Cheng Ye , Zhendong Mao , Peipei Song , Xinyan Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Yongdong Zhang

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of identifying human emotions from given data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because facial expressions contain rich emotional cues. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Kejun Liu , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen , Shiguang Shan

This study investigates the key characteristics and suitability of widely used Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets for training deep learning models. In the field of affective computing, FER is essential for interpreting human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Célia Martinie , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

While recent advances in deep learning have led to significant improvements in facial expression classification (FEC), a major challenge that remains a bottleneck for the widespread deployment of such systems is their high architectural and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 James Ren Hou Lee , Linda Wang , Alexander Wong

In-vehicle emotion recognition underpins adaptive driver-assistance systems and, ultimately, occupant safety. However, practical deployment is hindered by (i) modality fragility - poor lighting and occlusions degrade vision-based methods;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Baran Can Gül , Suraksha Nadig , Stefanos Tziampazis , Nasser Jazdi , Michael Weyrich

The seven basic facial expression classifications are a basic way to express complex human emotions and are an important part of artificial intelligence research. Based on the traditional Bayesian neural network framework, the ResNet18_BNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yuan Tai , Yihua Tan , Wei Gong , Hailan Huang

Affect (emotion) recognition has gained significant attention from researchers in the past decade. Emotion-aware computer systems and devices have many applications ranging from interactive robots, intelligent online tutor to emotion based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Amol Patwardhan , Gerald Knapp

While node semantics have been extensively explored in social networks, little research attention has been paid to profile edge semantics, i.e., social relations. Ideal edge semantics should not only show that two users are connected, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Carl Yang , Jieyu Zhang , Haonan Wang , Sha Li , Myungwan Kim , Matt Walker , Yiou Xiao , Jiawei Han

The rapid expansion of social media platforms has provided unprecedented access to massive amounts of multimodal user-generated content. Comprehending user emotions can provide valuable insights for improving communication and understanding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Sree Bhattacharyya , Shuhua Yang , James Z. Wang

Automatic facial expression recognition is an important research area in the emotion recognition and computer vision. Applications can be found in several domains such as medical treatment, driver fatigue surveillance, sociable robotics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sevegni Odilon Clement Allognon , Alessandro L. Koerich , Alceu de S. Britto

Recognizing the expressions of partially occluded faces is a challenging computer vision problem. Previous expression recognition methods, either overlooked this issue or resolved it using extreme assumptions. Motivated by the fact that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hui Ding , Peng Zhou , Rama Chellappa

Intelligent surveillance systems often handle perceptual tasks such as object detection, facial recognition, and emotion analysis independently, but they lack a unified, adaptive runtime scheduler that dynamically allocates computational…