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As various databases of facial expressions have been made accessible over the last few decades, the Facial Expression Recognition (FER) task has gotten a lot of interest. The multiple sources of the available databases raised several…

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The use of vision transformers (ViT) in computer vision is increasing due to limited inductive biases (e.g., locality, weight sharing, etc.) and increased scalability compared to other deep learning methods. This has led to some initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Steven A. Grosz , Anil K. Jain

While huge volumes of unlabeled data are generated and made available in many domains, the demand for automated understanding of visual data is higher than ever before. Most existing machine learning models typically rely on massive amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Youshan Zhang

For the Facial Action Unit (AU) detection task, accurately capturing the subtle facial differences between distinct AUs is essential for reliable detection. Additionally, AU detection faces challenges from class imbalance and the presence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ziqiao Shang , Bin Liu , Fengmao Lv , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) in the wild is an extremely challenging task, due to a large number of noisy frames in the video sequences. Previous works focus on extracting more discriminative features, but ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Hanting Li , Mingzhe Sui , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng zhao

Recent studies on fairness have shown that Facial Expression Recognition (FER) models exhibit biases toward certain visually perceived demographic groups. However, the limited availability of human-annotated demographic labels in public FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Tangzheng Lian , Oya Celiktutan

Facial expression recognition (FER) has received considerable attention in computer vision, with "in-the-wild" environments such as human-computer interaction. However, FER images contain uncertainties such as occlusion, low resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Myung Beom Her , Jisu Jeong , Hojoon Song , Ji-Hyeong Han

Transformers, particularly Vision Transformers (ViTs), have achieved state-of-the-art performance in large-scale image classification. However, they often require large amounts of data and can exhibit biases, such as center or size bias,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tobias Christian Nauen , Brian Moser , Federico Raue , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel

Human behavior understanding requires looking at minute details in the large context of a scene containing multiple input modalities. It is necessary as it allows the design of more human-like machines. While transformer approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Tanay Agrawal , Michal Balazia , Philipp Müller , François Brémond

This paper proposes a feature-based domain adaptation technique for identifying emotions in generic images, encompassing both facial and non-facial objects, as well as non-human components. This approach addresses the challenge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Puneet Kumar , Balasubramanian Raman

Computer vision models normally witness degraded performance when deployed in real-world scenarios, due to unexpected changes in inputs that were not accounted for during training. Data augmentation is commonly used to address this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Puru Vaish , Shunxin Wang , Nicola Strisciuglio

In this work, we explore the usage of the Frequency Transformation for reducing the domain shift between the source and target domain (e.g., synthetic image and real image respectively) towards solving the Domain Adaptation task. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Vikash Kumar , Himanshu Patil , Rohit Lal , Anirban Chakraborty

This paper presents a subject-independent facial action unit (AU) detection method by introducing the concept of relative AU detection, for scenarios where the neutral face is not provided. We propose a new classification objective function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Mahmoud Khademi , Louis-Philippe Morency

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a challenging task due to pervasive occlusion and dataset biases. Especially when facial information is partially occluded, existing FER models struggle to extract effective facial features, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Huiyu Zhai , Xingxing Yang , Yalan Ye , Chenyang Li , Bin Fan , Changze Li

Deep learning vision models excel with abundant supervision, but many applications face label scarcity and class imbalance. Controllable image editing can augment scarce labeled data, yet edits often introduce artifacts and entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joris Kirchner , Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Chirag Raman

Vision Transformers (ViT) have been shown to attain highly competitive performance for a wide range of vision applications, such as image classification, object detection and semantic image segmentation. In comparison to convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Andreas Steiner , Alexander Kolesnikov , Xiaohua Zhai , Ross Wightman , Jakob Uszkoreit , Lucas Beyer

Vision transformer (ViT) has been widely applied in many areas due to its self-attention mechanism that help obtain the global receptive field since the first layer. It even achieves surprising performance exceeding CNN in some vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hanting Li , Mingzhe Sui , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an active research domain that has shown great progress recently, notably thanks to the use of large deep learning models. However, such approaches are particularly energy intensive, which makes their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Sami Barchid , Benjamin Allaert , Amel Aissaoui , José Mennesson , Chaabane Djéraba

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent systems. The performance of FER in multiple domains is continuously being improved, especially through advancements in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sanjeev Nahulanthran , Mor Vered , Leimin Tian , Dana Kulić

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is an important task in the field of computer vision. To apply automatic DFER in practice, it is necessary to accurately recognize ambiguous facial expressions, which often appear in data in the…

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