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Facial expression data is characterized by a significant imbalance, with most collected data showing happy or neutral expressions and fewer instances of fear or disgust. This imbalance poses challenges to facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuhang Zhang , Yaqi Li , Lixiong Qin , Xuannan Liu , Weihong Deng

Recognizing human emotion/expressions automatically is quite an expected ability for intelligent robotics, as it can promote better communication and cooperation with humans. Current deep-learning-based algorithms may achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tao Pu , Tianshui Chen , Yuan Xie , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

Facial action unit (AU) recognition is a crucial task for facial expressions analysis and has attracted extensive attention in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. Existing works have either focused on designing or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Guanbin Li , Xin Zhu , Yirui Zeng , Qing Wang , Liang Lin

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as an important component of human-computer interaction systems. Despite recent advancements in FER, performance often drops significantly for non-frontal facial images. We propose Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements revealing people's hidden feelings, which has attracted numerous interests for its objectivity in emotion detection. However, despite its wide applications in various scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jingyao Wang , Yunhan Tian , Yuxuan Yang , Xiaoxin Chen , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) aims to identify human emotions from temporally evolving facial movements and plays a critical role in affective computing. While recent vision-language approaches have introduced semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yu Liu , Leyuan Qu , Hanlei Shi , Di Gao , Yuhua Zheng , Taihao Li

Learning image representations to capture fine-grained semantics has been a challenging and important task enabling many applications such as image search and clustering. In this paper, we present Graph-Regularized Image Semantic Embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Da-Cheng Juan , Chun-Ta Lu , Zhen Li , Futang Peng , Aleksei Timofeev , Yi-Ting Chen , Yaxi Gao , Tom Duerig , Andrew Tomkins , Sujith Ravi

This paper discusses the benefits of incorporating multimodal data for improving latent emotion recognition accuracy, focusing on micro-expression (ME) and physiological signals (PS). The proposed approach presents a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Liangfei Zhang , Yifei Qian , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Anthony Zhu

In this paper, we present a sparsity-aware deep network for automatic 4D facial expression recognition (FER). Given 4D data, we first propose a novel augmentation method to combat the data limitation problem for deep learning. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Muzammil Behzad , Nhat Vo , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Probabilistic Face Embeddings (PFE) can improve face recognition performance in unconstrained scenarios by integrating data uncertainty into the feature representation. However, existing PFE methods tend to be over-confident in estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Kai Chen , Qi Lv , Taihe Yi

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a classification task that points to face variants. Hence, there are certain affinity features between facial expressions, receiving little attention in the FER literature. Convolution padding, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiawei Shi , Songhao Zhu , Zhiwei Liang

Micro-expression recognition (MER) has drawn increasing attention in recent years due to its potential applications in intelligent medical and lie detection. However, the shortage of annotated data has been the major obstacle to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hanting Li , Hongjing Niu , Feng Zhao

Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) is a challenging task as the subtle changes occur over different action regions of a face. Changes in facial action regions are formed as Action Units (AUs), and AUs in micro-expressions can be seen as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Ming Dong

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary, low-intensity, and short-duration facial expressions that often reveal an individual's genuine thoughts and emotions. Most existing ME analysis methods rely on window-level classification with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zizheng Guo , Bochao Zou , Yinuo Jia , Xiangyu Li , Huimin Ma

Despite significant progress over the past few years, ambiguity is still a key challenge in Facial Expression Recognition (FER). It can lead to noisy and inconsistent annotation, which hinders the performance of deep learning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Quang Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen

Facial Expressions Recognition(FER) on low-resolution images is necessary for applications like group expression recognition in crowd scenarios(station, classroom etc.). Classifying a small size facial image into the right expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wei Jing , Feng Tian , Jizhong Zhang , Kuo-Ming Chao , Zhenxin Hong , Xu Liu

We present a new end-to-end network architecture for facial expression recognition with an attention model. It focuses attention in the human face and uses a Gaussian space representation for expression recognition. We devise this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Micro-expressions recognition (MER) has essential application value in many fields, but the short duration and low intensity of micro-expressions (MEs) bring considerable challenges to MER. The current MER methods in deep learning mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Liangyu Fu , Xuecheng Wu , Danlei Huang , Xinyi Yin

Many existing facial expression recognition (FER) systems encounter substantial performance degradation when faced with variations in head pose. Numerous frontalization methods have been proposed to enhance these systems' performance under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Omar Ikne , Benjamin Allaert , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Hazem Wannous

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 2026-03-11 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davison