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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

Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition is used widely in facial expression analysis. Most existing AU recognition systems aim for cross-participant non-calibrated generalization (NCG) to unseen faces without further calibration.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shuangquan Feng , Virginia R. de Sa

Facial expression transfer between two unpaired images is a challenging problem, as fine-grained expression is typically tangled with other facial attributes. Most existing methods treat expression transfer as an application of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zhiwen Shao , Hengliang Zhu , Junshu Tang , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

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

Humans focus attention on different face regions when recognizing face attributes. Most existing face attribute classification methods use the whole image as input. Moreover, some of these methods rely on fiducial landmarks to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Hui Ding , Hao Zhou , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Rama Chellappa

The Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) 2022 Competition gives Affective Computing a large promotion. In this paper, we present our method of AU challenge in this Competition. We use improved IResnet100 as backbone. Then we train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Wenqiang Jiang , Yannan Wu , Fengsheng Qiao , Liyu Meng , Yuanyuan Deng , Chuanhe Liu

Biologically inspired features, such as Gabor filters, result in very high dimensional measurement. Does reducing the dimensionality of the feature space afford advantages beyond computational efficiency? Do some approaches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Zhuo Hui , Wen-Sheng Chu

The detection of AI-generated faces is commonly approached as a binary classification task. Nevertheless, the resulting detectors frequently struggle to adapt to novel AI face generators, which evolve rapidly. In this paper, we describe an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mian Zou , Baosheng Yu , Yibing Zhan , Kede Ma

Facial Action Coding System is an important approach of facial expression analysis.This paper describes our submission to the third Affective Behavior Analysis (ABAW) 2022 competition. We proposed a transfomer based model to detect facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lingfeng Wang , Shisen Wang , Jin Qi

The spread of deepfakes poses significant security concerns, demanding reliable detection methods. However, diverse generation techniques and class imbalance in datasets create challenges. We propose CAE-Net, a Convolution- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Anindya Bhattacharjee , Kaidul Islam , Kafi Anan , Ashir Intesher , Abrar Assaeem Fuad , Utsab Saha , Hafiz Imtiaz

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection seeks to recognize subtle facial muscle activations as defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A primary challenge w.r.t AU detection is the effective learning of discriminative and generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yong Li , Yi Ren , Yizhe Zhang , Wenhua Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Muyun Jiang , Guo-Sen Xie , Cuntai Guan

This paper does not contain technical novelty but introduces our key discoveries in a data generation protocol, a database and insights. We aim to address the lack of large-scale datasets in micro-expression (MiE) recognition due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yuchi Liu , Zhongdao Wang , Tom Gedeon , Liang Zheng

With various face presentation attacks emerging continually, face anti-spoofing (FAS) approaches based on domain generalization (DG) have drawn growing attention. Existing DG-based FAS approaches always capture the domain-invariant features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Qianyu Zhou , Ke-Yue Zhang , Taiping Yao , Ran Yi , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

Face Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) plays a pivotal role in securing face recognition systems against spoofing attacks. Although great progress has been made in designing face PAD methods, developing a model that can generalize well to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Usman Muhammad , Jorma Laaksonen , Djamila Romaissa Beddiar , Mourad Oussalah

Facial Action Units (AU) is a vital concept in the realm of affective computing, and AU detection has always been a hot research topic. Existing methods suffer from overfitting issues due to the utilization of a large number of learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Weicheng Xie , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a critical task within computer vision with diverse applications across various domains. Addressing the challenge of limited FER datasets, which hampers the generalization capability of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bach Nguyen-Xuan , Thien Nguyen-Hoang , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Nhu Tai-Do

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

Facial expression recognition (FER) plays a significant role in our daily life. However, annotation ambiguity in the datasets could greatly hinder the performance. In this paper, we address FER task via label distribution learning paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Shu Liu , Yan Xu , Tongming Wan , Xiaoyan Kui

The analysis of expression and facial Action Units (AUs) detection are very important tasks in fields of computer vision and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) due to the wide range of applications in human life. Many works has been done…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Mohammadamin Abbasnejad , Mohammad Ali Masnadi-Shirazi

Facial action unit (FAU) intensities are popular descriptors for the analysis of facial behavior. However, FAUs are sparsely represented when only a few are activated at a time. In this study, we explore the possibility of representing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Minh Tran , Ellen Bradley , Michelle Matvey , Joshua Woolley , Mohammad Soleymani