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Effectiveness of speech emotion recognition in real-world scenarios is often hindered by noisy environments and variability across datasets. This paper introduces a two-step approach to enhance the robustness and generalization of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Upasana Tiwari , Rupayan Chakraborty , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

The face expression is the first thing we pay attention to when we want to understand a person's state of mind. Thus, the ability to recognize facial expressions in an automatic way is a very interesting research field. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrico Randellini , Leonardo Rigutini , Claudio Sacca'

Due to the subjective annotation and the inherent interclass similarity of facial expressions, one of key challenges in Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is the annotation ambiguity. In this paper, we proposes a solution, named DMUE, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jiahui She , Yibo Hu , Hailin Shi , Jun Wang , Qiu Shen , Tao Mei

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) plays a crucial role in computer vision and finds extensive applications across various fields. This paper aims to present our approach for the upcoming 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jun Yu , Zhihong Wei , Zhongpeng Cai , Gongpeng Zhao , Zerui Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Micro-expression recognition (MER), a critical subfield of affective computing, presents greater challenges than macro-expression recognition due to its brief duration and low intensity. While incorporating prior knowledge has been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Chuang Ma , Shaokai Zhao , Dongdong Zhou , Yu Pei , Zhiguo Luo , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has consistently been a focal point in the field of facial analysis. In the context of existing methodologies for 3D FER or 2D+3D FER, the extraction of expression features often gets entangled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Hebeizi Li , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

Masked face recognition (MFR) has emerged as a critical domain in biometric identification, especially by the global COVID-19 pandemic, which introduced widespread face masks. This survey paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mohamed Mahmoud , Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem , Hyun-Soo Kang

Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is a key task in affective computing, enabling applications in human-computer interaction, e-learning, healthcare, and safety systems. Despite advances in deep learning, FER remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ahsan Farabi , Israt Khandaker , Ibrahim Khalil Shanto , Md Abdul Ahad Minhaz , Tanisha Zaman

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 analysis is central to understanding human behavior, yet existing coding systems such as the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) are constrained by limited coverage and costly manual annotation. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Minh Tran , Maksim Siniukov , Zhangyu Jin , Mohammad Soleymani

Deep learning-based multi-view facial capture methods have shown impressive accuracy while being several orders of magnitude faster than a traditional mesh registration pipeline. However, the existing systems (e.g. TEMPEH) are strictly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jing Li , Di Kang , Zhenyu He

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm in fundamental cross-modality research, demonstrating significant potential in both image understanding and generation. However, existing research in the face domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Junzhe Li , Sifan Zhou , Liya Guo , Xuerui Qiu , Linrui Xu , Delin Qu , Tingting Long , Chun Fan , Ming Li , Hehe Fan , Jun Liu , Shuicheng Yan

As the expressive depth of an emotional face differs with individuals or expressions, recognizing an expression using a single facial image at a moment is difficult. A relative expression of a query face compared to a reference face might…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Youngsung Kim , ByungIn Yoo , Youngjun Kwak , Changkyu Choi , Junmo Kim

Diversity of the features extracted by deep neural networks is important for enhancing the model generalization ability and accordingly its performance in different learning tasks. Facial expression recognition in the wild has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Negar Heidari , Alexandros Iosifidis

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have proven effective in various tasks including image, shape, audio, and video reconstruction. These INRs typically learn the implicit field from sampled input points. This is often done using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage , Sameera Ramasinghe , Stephen Gould

The recent Covid-19 pandemic and the fact that wearing masks in public is now mandatory in several countries, created challenges in the use of face recognition systems (FRS). In this work, we address the challenge of masked face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Pedro C. Neto , Fadi Boutros , João Ribeiro Pinto , Mohsen Saffari , Naser Damer , Ana F. Sequeira , Jaime S. Cardoso

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent agents and systems. However, key challenges remain in utilizing FER in real-world contexts, including ensuring user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sanjeev Nahulanthran , Leimin Tian , Dana Kulić , Mor Vered

Fully-Automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) from still images is a challenging task as it involves handling large interpersonal morphological differences, and as partial occlusions can occasionally happen. Furthermore, labelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Arnaud Dapogny , Kévin Bailly , Séverine Dubuisson

The main task of Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) is to identify the emotions in modalities, e.g., text, audio, image and video, which is a significant development direction for realizing machine intelligence. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li