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Facial expression recognition (FER) is a crucial part of human-computer interaction. Existing FER methods achieve high accuracy and generalization based on different open-source deep models and training approaches. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Gianmarco Ipinze Tutuianu , Yang Liu , Ari Alamäki , Janne Kauttonen

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is crucial in many research domains because it enables machines to better understand human behaviours. FER methods face the problems of relatively small datasets and noisy data that don't allow classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jules Bonnard , Arnaud Dapogny , Ferdinand Dhombres , Kévin Bailly

We propose a meta-learning method for learning from multiple noisy annotators. In many applications such as crowdsourcing services, labels for supervised learning are given by multiple annotators. Since the annotators have different skills…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Taishi Nishiyama , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging task due to the ambiguity of expressions. The derived noisy labels significantly harm the performance in real-world scenarios. To address this issue, we present a new FER model named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui

Facial Expression Recognition faces two core challenges. The first is class imbalance in public datasets, which skews the learning process and weakens generalization. The second is related to privacy and data collection constraints, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ali Azmoudeh , Erdi Sarıtaş , Ömer Yıldırım , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Current state-of-the-art models for automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) are based on very deep neural networks that are effective but rather expensive to train. Given the dynamic conditions of FER, this characteristic hinders such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Alessandra Sciutti

The paper describes our proposed methodology for the seven basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2021. In this task, facial expression recognition (FER) methods aim to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shuyi Mao , Xinqi Fan , Xiaojiang Peng

Noisy label Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is more challenging than traditional noisy label classification tasks due to the inter-class similarity and the annotation ambiguity. Recent works mainly tackle this problem by filtering out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yuhang Zhang , Chengrui Wang , Xu Ling , Weihong Deng

Most of the existing deep neural nets on automatic facial expression recognition focus on a set of predefined emotion classes, where the amount of training data has the biggest impact on performance. However, in the standard setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Anca-Nicoleta Ciubotaru , Arnout Devos , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Maria Gabrani

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a subset of computer vision with important applications for human-computer-interaction, healthcare, and customer service. FER represents a challenging problem-space because accurate classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ezra Engel , Lishan Li , Chris Hudy , Robert Schleusner

Deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) has received a lot of attention in the past few years. Most of the existing deep learning based FER methods do not consider domain knowledge well, which thereby fail to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yuedong Chen , Jianfeng Wang , Shikai Chen , Zhongchao Shi , Jianfei Cai

Facial expression recognition (FER) has always been a challenging issue in computer vision. The different expressions of emotion and uncontrolled environmental factors lead to inconsistencies in the complexity of FER and variability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Tianyuan Chang , Guihua Wen , Yang Hu , JiaJiong Ma

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) suffers from data uncertainties caused by ambiguous facial images and annotators' subjectiveness, resulting in excursive semantic and feature covariate shifting problem. Existing works usually correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yangtao Du , Qingqing Wang , Yujie Xiong

Studies have proven that domain bias and label bias exist in different Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets, making it hard to improve the performance of a specific dataset by adding other datasets. For the FER bias issue, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Shuyi Mao , Xinpeng Li , Qingyang Wu , Xiaojiang Peng

This study takes a preliminary step toward teaching computers to recognize human emotions through Facial Emotion Recognition (FER). Transfer learning is applied using ResNeXt, EfficientNet models, and an ArcFace model originally trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Dylan Waldner , Shyamal Mitra

Emotions play a central role in the social life of every human being, and their study, which represents a multidisciplinary subject, embraces a great variety of research fields. Especially concerning the latter, the analysis of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Donato Cafarelli , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Facial Expression Analysis remains a challenging task due to unexpected task-irrelevant noise, such as identity, head pose, and background. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel framework, called Norface, that is unified for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hanwei Liu , Rudong An , Zhimeng Zhang , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Yan Song , Yujing Hu , Wei Chen , Yu Ding

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a topic attracting significant research in both psychology and machine learning with a wide range of applications. Despite a wealth of research on human FER and considerable progress in computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Serin Park , Christian Wallraven

Current state-of-the-art models for automatic FER are based on very deep neural networks that are difficult to train. This makes it challenging to adapt these models to changing conditions, a requirement from FER models given the subjective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Alessandra Sciutti