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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)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad Hadi Kiapour , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Ali A. Kiaei

The intensity estimation of facial action units (AUs) is challenging due to subtle changes in the person's facial appearance. Previous approaches mainly rely on probabilistic models or predefined rules for modeling co-occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yingruo Fan , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) has been used by numerous studies to investigate the links between facial behavior and mental health. The laborious and costly process of FACS coding has motivated the development of machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Evangelos Sariyanidi , Lisa Yankowitz , Robert T. Schultz , John D. Herrington , Birkan Tunc , Jeffrey Cohn

Unlike macro-expression, micro-expression does not follow a strictly consistent mapping rule between emotions and Action Units (AUs). As a result, some micro-expressions share identical AUs yet represent completely opposite emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxing Hu , Kun Xie , Qiguang Miao , Ruyi Liu , Quan Wang , Zongkai Yang

Human behavior expression and experience are inherently multi-modal, and characterized by vast individual and contextual heterogeneity. To achieve meaningful human-computer and human-robot interactions, multi-modal models of the users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Ognjen Rudovic , Meiru Zhang , Bjorn Schuller , Rosalind W. Picard

Action Unit (AU) detection plays an important role for facial expression recognition. To the best of our knowledge, there is little research about AU analysis for micro-expressions. In this paper, we focus on AU detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yante Li , Xiaohua Huang , Guoying Zhao

Action Units (AU) are muscular activations used to describe facial expressions. Therefore accurate AU recognition unlocks unbiaised face representation which can improve face-based affective computing applications. From a learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Gauthier Tallec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Facial Action Coding System is an approach for modeling the complexity of human emotional expression. Automatic action unit (AU) detection is a crucial research area in human-computer interaction. This paper describes our submission to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Duy Le Hoai , Eunchae Lim , Eunbin Choi , Sieun Kim , Sudarshan Pant , Guee-Sang Lee , Soo-Huyng Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang

Facial action units allow an objective, standardized description of facial micro movements which can be used to describe emotions in human faces. Annotating data for action units is an expensive and time-consuming task, which leads to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Jaspar Pahl , Ines Rieger , Dominik Seuss

Facial action unit (AU) intensity is an index to describe all visually discernible facial movements. Most existing methods learn intensity estimator with limited AU data, while they lack generalization ability out of the dataset. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Xinhui Song , Tianyang Shi , Zunlei Feng , Mingli Song , Jackie Lin , Chuanjie Lin , Changjie Fan , Yi Yuan

Facial action unit (AU) detection and facial expression (FE) recognition can be jointly viewed as affective facial behavior tasks, representing fine-grained muscular activations and coarse-grained holistic affective states, respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jia Li , Yu Zhang , Yin Chen , Zhenzhen Hu , Yong Li , Richang Hong , Shiguang Shan , Meng Wang

Authentication is a task aiming to confirm the truth between data instances and personal identities. Typical authentication applications include face recognition, person re-identification, authentication based on mobile devices and so on.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-29 Jian Liang , Yuren Cao , Chenbin Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Kun Bai , Zenglin Xu

Micro-expression Action Unit (AU) detection identifies localized AUs from subtle facial muscle activations, providing a foundation for decoding affective cues. Previous methods face three key limitations: (1) heavy reliance on low-density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhishu Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Bo Zhao , Hui Ma , Zitong Yu

Most state-of-the-art approaches for Facial Action Unit (AU) detection rely upon evaluating facial expressions from static frames, encoding a snapshot of heightened facial activity. In real-world interactions, however, facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Nikhil Churamani , Sinan Kalkan , Hatice Gunes

High-quality annotated images are significant to deep facial expression recognition (FER) methods. However, uncertain labels, mostly existing in large-scale public datasets, often mislead the training process. In this paper, we achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yang Liu , Xingming Zhang , Janne Kauttonen , Guoying Zhao

Analyzing human affect is vital for human-computer interaction systems. Most methods are developed in restricted scenarios which are not practical for in-the-wild settings. The Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) 2021 Contest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yue Jin , Tianqing Zheng , Chao Gao , Guoqiang Xu

Human action understanding is a fundamental and challenging task in computer vision. Although there exists tremendous research on this area, most works focus on action recognition, while action retrieval has received less attention. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Hongsong Wang , Jianhua Zhao , Jie Gui

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Mohammad H. Kiapour , Ali A. Kiaei

Automatically understanding and recognising human affective states using images and computer vision can improve human-computer and human-robot interaction. However, privacy has become an issue of great concern, as the identities of people…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jimiama M. Mase , Natalie Leesakul , Fan Yang , Grazziela P. Figueredo , Mercedes Torres Torres

The detection of micro-expression Action Units (AUs) is a formidable challenge in affective computing, pivotal for decoding subtle, involuntary human emotions. While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate profound reasoning abilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhishu Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Bo Zhao , Yong Xu , Zitong Yu
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