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Facial micro-expressions indicate brief and subtle facial movements that appear during emotional communication. In comparison to macro-expressions, micro-expressions are more challenging to be analyzed due to the short span of time and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hong-Xia Xie , Ling Lo , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

How to extract effective expression representations that invariant to the identity-specific attributes is a long-lasting problem for facial expression recognition (FER). Most of the previous methods process the RGB images of a sequence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiaofeng Liu , Linghao Jin , Xu Han , Jane You

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is a task that estimates emotions from facial expression video sequences. For practical applications, accurately recognizing ambiguous facial expressions -- frequently encountered in in-the-wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ryosuke Kawamura , Hideaki Hayashi , Shunsuke Otake , Noriko Takemura , Hajime Nagahara

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in our daily life, the ability to recognize and adapt to human emotions is essential for effective human-computer interaction. Facial expression recognition (FER) provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thibault Geoffroy , Myriam Maumy , Lionel Prevost

Recognizing wild faces is extremely hard as they appear with all kinds of variations. Traditional methods either train with specifically annotated variation data from target domains, or by introducing unlabeled target variation data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yichun Shi , Xiang Yu , Kihyuk Sohn , Manmohan Chandraker , Anil K. Jain

Representations used for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) usually contain expression information along with identity features. In this paper, we propose a novel Disentangled Expression learning-Generative Adversarial Network (DE-GAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Group-level emotion recognition (GER) is an inseparable part of human behavior analysis, aiming to recognize an overall emotion in a multi-person scene. However, the existing methods are devoted to combing diverse emotion cues while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Qing Zhu , Qirong Mao , Jialin Zhang , Xiaohua Huang , Wenming Zheng

Facial micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements of the face that occur spontaneously when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to suppress or repress the facial expression, typically found in a high-stakes environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Wen-Huang Cheng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davision

In recent years, Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has gained increasing attention. Most current work focuses on supervised learning, which requires a large amount of labeled and diverse images, while FER suffers from the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jie Song , Mengqiao He , Jinhua Feng , Bairong Shen

In this paper, an effective pipeline to automatic 4D Facial Expression Recognition (4D FER) is proposed. It combines two growing but disparate ideas in Computer Vision -- computing the spatial facial deformations using tools from Riemannian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qingkai Zhen , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang , Hassen Drira , Boulbaba Ben Amor , Mohamed Daoudi

Reliable facial expression learning (FEL) involves the effective learning of distinctive facial expression characteristics for more reliable, unbiased and accurate predictions in real-life settings. However, current systems struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Taki Hasan Rafi , Raima Islam , Karlo Serbetar , Dong Kyu Chae

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is an important task in the field of computer vision. To apply automatic DFER in practice, it is necessary to accurately recognize ambiguous facial expressions, which often appear in data in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ryosuke Kawamura , Hideaki Hayashi , Noriko Takemura , Hajime Nagahara

Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) is an active research field that aims to accurately recognize human emotions by fusing multiple perceptual modalities. However, inherent heterogeneity across modalities introduces distribution gaps and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Haoqin Sun , Shiwan Zhao , Xuechen Wang , Wenjia Zeng , Yong Chen , Yong Qin

Facial expression transfer between two unpaired images is a challenging problem, as fine-grained expression is typically tangled with other facial attributes. Most existing methods treat expression transfer as an application of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zhiwen Shao , Hengliang Zhu , Junshu Tang , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Humans modify their facial expressions in order to communicate their internal states and sometimes to mislead observers regarding their true emotional states. Evidence in experimental psychology shows that discriminative facial responses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Kaustubh Kulkarni , Ciprian Adrian Corneanu , Ikechukwu Ofodile , Sergio Escalera , Xavier Baro , Sylwia Hyniewska , Juri Allik , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

Facial expression recognition (FER) is vital for human-computer interaction and emotion analysis, yet recognizing expressions in low-resolution images remains challenging. This paper introduces a practical method called Dynamic Resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Songpan Wang , Xu Li , Tianxiang Jiang , Yuanlun Xie

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

The performance of face recognition system degrades when the variability of the acquired faces increases. Prior work alleviates this issue by either monitoring the face quality in pre-processing or predicting the data uncertainty along with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Qiang Meng , Shichao Zhao , Zhida Huang , Feng Zhou

In this paper, we present a novel approach to automatic 3D Facial Expression Recognition (FER) based on deep representation of facial 3D geometric and 2D photometric attributes. A 3D face is firstly represented by its geometric and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Huibin Li , Jian Sun , Dong Wang , Zongben Xu , Liming Chen

Micro-expression recognition (MER) draws intensive research interest as micro-expressions (MEs) can infer genuine emotions. Prior information can guide the model to learn discriminative ME features effectively. However, most works focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinsheng Wei , Haoyu Chen , Guanming Lu , Jingjie Yan , Yue Xie , Guoying Zhao