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Deep learning has played a significant role in the success of facial expression recognition (FER), thanks to large models and vast amounts of labelled data. However, obtaining labelled data requires a tremendous amount of human effort,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

Recently, deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) methods have attracted considerable attention and they usually require large-scale labelled training data. Nonetheless, the publicly available facial expression databases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Yan Yan , Ying Huang , Si Chen , Chunhua Shen , Hanzi Wang

Presence of noise in the labels of large scale facial expression datasets has been a key challenge towards Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild. During early learning stage, deep networks fit on clean data. Then, eventually, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Darshan Gera , S. Balasubramanian

Automatically understanding emotions from visual data is a fundamental task for human behaviour understanding. While models devised for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) have demonstrated excellent performances on many datasets, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Alessandro Conti , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Existing information on AI-based facial emotion recognition (FER) is not easily comprehensible by those outside the field of computer science, requiring cross-disciplinary effort to determine a categorisation framework that promotes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 R. Yamamoto Ravenor

Over the centuries, humans have developed and acquired a number of ways to communicate. But hardly any of them can be as natural and instinctive as facial expressions. On the other hand, neural networks have taken the world by storm. And no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Subodh Lonkar

Understanding the facial expressions of our interlocutor is important to enrich the communication and to give it a depth that goes beyond the explicitly expressed. In fact, studying one's facial expression gives insight into their hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Rim EL Cheikh , Hélène Tran , Issam Falih , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

People can innately recognize human facial expressions in unnatural forms, such as when depicted on the unusual faces drawn in cartoons or when applied to an animal's features. However, current machine learning algorithms struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Michael Stettler , Alexander Lappe , Nick Taubert , Martin Giese

The rapid aging of the global population has highlighted the need for technologies to support elderly, particularly in healthcare and emotional well-being. Facial expression recognition (FER) systems offer a non-invasive means of monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Jose M. Buades-Rubio , Philippe Palanque , Raquel Lacuesta , Cristina Manresa-Yee

Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging task due to label ambiguity caused by the subjective nature of facial expressions and noisy samples. Additionally, class imbalance, which is common in real-world datasets, further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 JunGyu Lee , Yeji Choi , Haksub Kim , Ig-Jae Kim , Gi Pyo Nam

Bringing empathy to a computerized system could significantly improve the quality of human-computer communications, as soon as machines would be able to understand customer intentions and better serve their needs. According to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Kamil Akhmetov

Facial expression recognition (FER) algorithms classify facial expressions into emotions such as happy, sad, or angry. An evaluative challenge facing FER algorithms is the fall in performance when detecting spontaneous expressions compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Rina Khan , Catherine Stinson

Recently, online learning is very popular, especially under the global epidemic of COVID-19. Besides knowledge distribution, emotion interaction is also very important. It can be obtained by employing Facial Expression Recognition (FER).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Huo , Lei Zhang

Although state-of-the-art classifiers for facial expression recognition (FER) can achieve a high level of accuracy, they lack interpretability, an important feature for end-users. Experts typically associate spatial action units (\aus) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild is extremely challenging due to occlusions, variant head poses, face deformation and motion blur under unconstrained conditions. Although substantial progresses have been made in automatic FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is challenging due to intra-class variations and inter-class similarities. FER can be especially difficult when facial expressions reflect a mixture of various emotions (aka compound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ali Pourramezan Fard , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini , Timothy D. Sweeny , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has remained a challenging and interesting problem. Despite efforts made in developing various methods for FER, existing approaches traditionally lack generalizability when applied to unseen…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ali Mollahosseini , David Chan , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Facial Expression Recognition(FER) is one of the most important topic in Human-Computer interactions(HCI). In this work we report details and experimental results about a facial expression recognition method based on state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Donato Cafarelli , Fabio Valerio Massoli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

Annotation ambiguity caused by the inherent subjectivity of visual judgment has always been a major challenge for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) tasks, particularly for largescale datasets from in-the-wild scenarios. A potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hanwei Liu , Huiling Cai , Qingcheng Lin , Xuefeng Li , Hui Xiao

Facial expressions play a fundamental role in human communication. Indeed, they typically reveal the real emotional status of people beyond the spoken language. Moreover, the comprehension of human affect based on visual patterns is a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Donato Cafarelli , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi