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To achieve good performance in face recognition, a large scale training dataset is usually required. A simple yet effective way to improve recognition performance is to use a dataset as large as possible by combining multiple datasets in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Gaoang Wang , Lin Chen , Tianqiang Liu , Mingwei He , Jiebo Luo

As a fine-grained and local expression behavior measurement, facial action unit (FAU) analysis (e.g., detection and intensity estimation) has been documented for its time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone annotation. Thus a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bowen Ma , Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Yu Ding , Zeng Zhao , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu

Action Units (AUs) are geometrically-based atomic facial muscle movements known to produce appearance changes at specific facial locations. Motivated by this observation we propose a novel AU modelling problem that consists of jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Ioanna Ntinou , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Michel Valstar , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Datasets play an important role in the progress of facial expression recognition algorithms, but they may suffer from obvious biases caused by different cultures and collection conditions. To look deeper into this bias, we first conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Shan Li , Weihong Deng

Recently, Visual Transformer (ViT) has been extensively used in medical image segmentation (MIS) due to applying self-attention mechanism in the spatial domain to modeling global knowledge. However, many studies have focused on improving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Jiacheng Ruan , Jingsheng Gao , Mingye Xie , Suncheng Xiang

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

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

Current works formulate facial action unit (AU) recognition as a supervised learning problem, requiring fully AU-labeled facial images during training. It is challenging if not impossible to provide AU annotations for large numbers of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Shangfei Wang , Yanan Chang , Guozhu Peng , Bowen Pan

Facial action unit (AU) detection is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. Recent works on AU detection with self-supervised learning have emerged to address this problem, aiming to learn meaningful AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Juan Song , Zhilei Liu

Current FER (Facial Expression Recognition) dataset is mostly labeled by emotion categories, such as happy, angry, sad, fear, disgust, surprise, and neutral which are limited in expressiveness. However, future affective computing requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Huo , Yun Ge

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

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to leverage the knowledge learned from labeled source domains to improve performance on the unlabeled target domains. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been dominant in previous UDA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Xiaowei Yu , Zhe Huang , Zao Zhang

High-quality annotated images are significant to deep facial expression recognition (FER) methods. However, uncertain labels, mostly existing in large-scale public datasets, often mislead the training process. In this paper, we achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yang Liu , Xingming Zhang , Janne Kauttonen , Guoying Zhao

Owing to the advances in image processing technology and large-scale datasets, companies have implemented facial authentication processes, thereby stimulating increased focus on face anti-spoofing (FAS) against realistic presentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yunseung Lee , Youngjun Kwak , Jinho Shin

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad Hadi Kiapour , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Ali A. Kiaei

Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) plays a crucial role in computer vision, with significant applications in human-computer interaction, affective computing, and areas such as mental health monitoring and personalized learning environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Arnab Kumar Roy , Hemant Kumar Kathania , Adhitiya Sharma

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is a task that estimates emotions from facial expression video sequences. For practical applications, accurately recognizing ambiguous facial expressions -- frequently encountered in in-the-wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ryosuke Kawamura , Hideaki Hayashi , Shunsuke Otake , Noriko Takemura , Hajime Nagahara

Due to the subjective crowdsourcing annotations and the inherent inter-class similarity of facial expressions, the real-world Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets usually exhibit ambiguous annotation. To simplify the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Weijie Wang , Bo Li , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

Due to its importance in facial behaviour analysis, facial action unit (AU) detection has attracted increasing attention from the research community. Leveraging the online knowledge distillation framework, we propose the ``FANTrans" method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jing Yang , Jie Shen , Yiming Lin , Yordan Hristov , Maja Pantic

Facial action units (AUs) recognition is essential for emotion analysis and has been widely applied in mental state analysis. Existing work on AU recognition usually requires big face dataset with AU labels; however, manual AU annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xuesong Niu , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen