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Multimodal sentiment analysis, a pivotal task in affective computing, seeks to understand human emotions by integrating cues from language, audio, and visual signals. While many recent approaches leverage complex attention mechanisms and…

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Facial expression recognition (FER) in the wild remains a challenging task due to the subtle and localized nature of expression-related features, as well as the complex variations in facial appearance. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

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Micro-expressions are spontaneous, unconscious facial movements that show people's true inner emotions and have great potential in related fields of psychological testing. Since the face is a 3D deformation object, the occurrence of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Fengping Wang , Jie Li , Siqi Zhang , Chun Qi , Yun Zhang , Danmin Miao

Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) systems typically outperform unimodal systems by leveraging the inter- and intra-modal relationships between, e.g., visual, textual, physiological, and auditory modalities. This paper proposes an MMER…

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Recently, event cameras have shown large applicability in several computer vision fields especially concerning tasks that require high temporal resolution. In this work, we investigate the usage of such kind of data for emotion recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Lorenzo Berlincioni , Luca Cultrera , Chiara Albisani , Lisa Cresti , Andrea Leonardo , Sara Picchioni , Federico Becattini , Alberto Del Bimbo

The fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition is part of the respective ABAW Workshop which will be held in conjunction with IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023. The 5th ABAW…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Dimitrios Kollias , Panagiotis Tzirakis , Alice Baird , Alan Cowen , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Facial expression recognition is a challenging classification task that holds broad application prospects in the field of human-computer interaction. This paper aims to introduce the method we will adopt in the 8th Affective and Behavioral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jun Yu , Yang Zheng , Lei Wang , Yongqi Wang , Shengfan Xu

This article presents our results for the eighth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition.Multimodal emotion recognition (ER) has important applications in affective computing and human-computer interaction. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ran Liu , Fengyu Zhang , Cong Yu , Longjiang Yang , Zhuofan Wen , Siyuan Zhang , Hailiang Yao , Shun Chen , Zheng Lian , Bin Liu

In the field of affective computing, traditional methods for generating emotions predominantly rely on deep learning techniques and large-scale emotion datasets. However, deep learning techniques are often complex and difficult to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Haidong Wang , Qia Shan , JianHua Zhang , PengFei Xiao , Ao Liu

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an important task in computer vision and has wide applications in human-computer interaction, intelligent security, emotion analysis, and other fields. However, the limited size of FER datasets limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Yu , Zhongpeng Cai , Renda Li , Gongpeng Zhao , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

This paper presents our submission to the Expression Classification Challenge of the fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition. In our method, multimodal feature combinations extracted by several different pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chuanhe Liu , Xinjie Zhang , Xiaolong Liu , Tenggan Zhang , Liyu Meng , Yuchen Liu , Yuanyuan Deng , Wenqiang Jiang

In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to simultaneously analyze facial movements and several peripheral physiological signals to decode individualized affective experiences under positive and negative emotional contexts, while…

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Patient pain can be detected highly reliably from facial expressions using a set of facial muscle-based action units (AUs) defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A key characteristic of facial expression of pain is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana J. Wilkie

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

In this paper, a deep learning framework is proposed for automatic facial emotion based on deep convolutional networks. In order to increase the generalization ability and the robustness of the method, the dataset size is increased by…

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Sentiment analysis, mostly based on text, has been rapidly developing in the last decade and has attracted widespread attention in both academia and industry. However, the information in the real world usually comes from multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Feiyang Chen , Ziqian Luo , Yanyan Xu , Dengfeng Ke

Compared with the image-based static facial expression recognition (SFER) task, the dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) task based on video sequences is closer to the natural expression recognition scene. However, DFER is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Hanting Li , Hongjing Niu , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

A multi-modal emotional speech Mandarin database including articulatory kinematics, acoustics, glottal and facial micro-expressions is designed and established, which is described in detail from the aspects of corpus design, subject…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Zhu Ting , Li Liangqi , Duan Shufei , Zhang Xueying , Xiao Zhongzhe , Jia Hairng , Liang Huizhi

Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition (EMER) is an emerging task that aims to achieve reliable and accurate emotion recognition. However, due to the high annotation cost, the existing dataset (denoted as EMER-Fine) is small, making it…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Jiangyan Yi , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

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…

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