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This paper presents a novel multi-identity face reenactment framework, named FReeNet, to transfer facial expressions from an arbitrary source face to a target face with a shared model. The proposed FReeNet consists of two parts: Unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jiangning Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Mengmeng Wang , Yusu Pan , Liang Liu , Yong Liu , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan

Employing deep learning-based approaches for fine-grained facial expression analysis, such as those involving the estimation of Action Unit (AU) intensities, is difficult due to the lack of a large-scale dataset of real faces with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Zhilei Liu , Guoxian Song , Jianfei Cai , Tat-Jen Cham , Juyong Zhang

In this report, we present our solution for the Action Unit (AU) Detection Challenge, in 8th Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild. In order to achieve robust and accurate classification of facial action unit in the wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jun Yu , Yunxiang Zhang , Xilong Lu , Yang Zheng , Yongqi Wang , Lingsi Zhu

Nowadays, visual data forgery detection plays an increasingly important role in social and economic security with the rapid development of generative models. Existing face forgery detectors still can't achieve satisfactory performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuhan Luo , Tao Chen , Decheng Liu

Most of the existing work on automatic facial expression analysis focuses on discrete emotion recognition, or facial action unit detection. However, facial expressions do not always fall neatly into pre-defined semantic categories. Also,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Raviteja Vemulapalli , Aseem Agarwala

The intensity estimation of facial action units (AUs) is challenging due to subtle changes in the person's facial appearance. Previous approaches mainly rely on probabilistic models or predefined rules for modeling co-occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yingruo Fan , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li

With rapid advancements in generative modeling, deepfake techniques are increasingly narrowing the gap between real and synthetic videos, raising serious privacy and security concerns. Beyond traditional face swapping and reenactment, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tharun Anand , Siva Sankar Sajeev , Pravin Nair

Critical obstacles in training classifiers to detect facial actions are the limited sizes of annotated video databases and the relatively low frequencies of occurrence of many actions. To address these problems, we propose an approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Koichiro Niinuma , Itir Onal Ertugrul , Jeffrey F Cohn , László A Jeni

Recognizing the expressions of partially occluded faces is a challenging computer vision problem. Previous expression recognition methods, either overlooked this issue or resolved it using extreme assumptions. Motivated by the fact that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hui Ding , Peng Zhou , Rama Chellappa

Human affective behavior analysis aims to delve into human expressions and behaviors to deepen our understanding of human emotions. Basic expression categories (EXPR) and Action Units (AUs) are two essential components in this analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Li Lin , Sarah Papabathini , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

Facial Action Coding System is an approach for modeling the complexity of human emotional expression. Automatic action unit (AU) detection is a crucial research area in human-computer interaction. This paper describes our submission to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Duy Le Hoai , Eunchae Lim , Eunbin Choi , Sieun Kim , Sudarshan Pant , Guee-Sang Lee , Soo-Huyng Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang

Facial expression recognition is vital for human behavior analysis, and deep learning has enabled models that can outperform humans. However, it is unclear how closely they mimic human processing. This study aims to explore the similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Silvia Ramis-Guarinos , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

Facial expressions play an important role in conveying the emotional states of human beings. Recently, deep learning approaches have been applied to image recognition field due to the discriminative power of Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yingruo Fan , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li

Pain is a common occurrence among patients admitted to Intensive Care Units. Pain assessment in ICU patients still remains a challenge for clinicians and ICU staff, specifically in cases of non-verbal sedated, mechanically ventilated, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Subhash Nerella , Kia Khezeli , Andrea Davidson , Patrick Tighe , Azra Bihorac , Parisa Rashidi

We present a new end-to-end network architecture for facial expression recognition with an attention model. It focuses attention in the human face and uses a Gaussian space representation for expression recognition. We devise this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

In this paper, we investigate the impact of some of the commonly used settings for (a) preprocessing face images, and (b) classification and training, on Action Unit (AU) detection performance and complexity. We use in our investigation a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Mina Bishay , Ahmed Ghoneim , Mohamed Ashraf , Mohammad Mavadati

Facial expression analysis based on machine learning requires large number of well-annotated data to reflect different changes in facial motion. Publicly available datasets truly help to accelerate research in this area by providing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yanfu Yan , Ke Lu , Jian Xue , Pengcheng Gao , Jiayi Lyu

The muscular activities caused the activation of certain AUs for every facial expression at the certain duration of time throughout the facial expression. This paper presents the methods to recognise facial Action Unit (AU) using facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 N. Hussain , H. Ujir , I. Hipiny , J-L Minoi

Despite being the appearance-based classifier of choice in recent years, relatively few works have examined how much convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can improve performance on accepted expression recognition benchmarks and, more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Pooya Khorrami , Tom Le Paine , Thomas S. Huang

Automatic facial expression spotting, which aims to identify facial expression instances in untrimmed videos, is crucial for facial expression analysis. Existing methods primarily focus on fully-supervised learning and rely on costly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yicheng Deng , Hideaki Hayashi , Hajime Nagahara