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The recent research of facial expression recognition has made a lot of progress due to the development of deep learning technologies, but some typical challenging problems such as the variety of rich facial expressions and poses are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Wenxuan Wang , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yanwei Fu

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of identifying human emotions from given data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because facial expressions contain rich emotional cues. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Kejun Liu , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen , Shiguang Shan

Micro-expressions are rapid and involuntary facial expressions, which indicate the suppressed or concealed emotions. Recently, the research on automatic micro-expression (ME) spotting obtains increasing attention. ME spotting is a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Xiaopeng Hong , Thuong-Khanh Tran , Guoying Zhao

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary and subtle facial expressions that are thought to reveal feelings people are trying to hide. ME spotting detects the temporal intervals containing MEs in videos. Detecting such quick and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yini Fang , Didan Deng , Liang Wu , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Micro-expressions are nonverbal facial expressions that reveal the covert emotions of individuals, making the micro-expression recognition task receive widespread attention. However, the micro-expression recognition task is challenging due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ren Zhang , Jianqin Yin , Chao Qi , Zehao Wang , Zhicheng Zhang , Yonghao Dang

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of analyzing and identifying human emotions from sensing data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because visual channel conveys rich emotional cues. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kejun Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Chang Tang , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Facial expression recognition (FER) aims to analyze emotional states from static images and dynamic sequences, which is pivotal in enhancing anthropomorphic communication among humans, robots, and digital avatars by leveraging AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yan Wang , Shaoqi Yan , Yang Liu , Wei Song , Jing Liu , Yang Chang , Xinji Mai , Xiping Hu , Wenqiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

In this paper, we present a large-scale, multi-source, and unconstrained database called SDFE-LV for spotting the onset and offset frames of a complete dynamic facial expression from long videos, which is known as the topic of dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xiaolin Xu , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng , Yang Li , Chuangao Tang , Xingxun Jiang , Haolin Jiang

Facial Micro-expression Recognition (MER) distinguishes the underlying emotional states of spontaneous subtle facialexpressions. Automatic MER is challenging because that 1) the intensity of subtle facial muscle movement is extremely lowand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wei Peng , Xiaopeng Hong , Yingyue Xu , Guoying Zhao

Micro-expressions (MEs) are infrequent and uncontrollable facial events that can highlight emotional deception and appear in a high-stakes environment. This paper propose an algorithm for spatiotemporal MEs spotting. Since MEs are unusual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Dawood Al Chanti , Alice Caplier

Micro-expressions are short bursts of emotion that are difficult to hide. Their detection in children is an important cue to assist psychotherapists in conducting better therapy. However, existing research on the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Nikin~Matharaarachchi , Muhammad~Fermi Pasha , Sonya~Coleman , Kah PengWong

Micro-expressions (MEs), brief and low-intensity facial movements revealing concealed emotions, are crucial for affective computing. Despite notable progress in ME recognition, existing methods are largely confined to discrete emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sirui Zhao , Zhengye Zhang , Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Shukang Yin , Chaoyou Fu , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Micro-Expression (ME) is the spontaneous, involuntary movement of a face that can reveal the true feeling. Recently, increasing researches have paid attention to this field combing deep learning techniques. Action units (AUs) are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ling Lo , Hong-Xia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is valuable because micro-expressions (MEs) can reveal genuine emotions. Most works take image sequences as input and cannot effectively explore ME information because subtle ME-related motions are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinsheng Wei , Wei Peng , Guanming Lu , Yante Li , Jingjie Yan , Guoying Zhao

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

Cross-database micro-expression recognition (CDMER) is one of recently emerging and interesting problem in micro-expression analysis. CDMER is more challenging than the conventional micro-expression recognition (MER), because the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yuan Zong , Tong Zhang , Wenming Zheng , Xiaopeng Hong , Chuangao Tang , Zhen Cui , Guoying Zhao

As a spontaneous expression of emotion on face, micro-expression reveals the underlying emotion that cannot be controlled by human. In micro-expression, facial movement is transient and sparsely localized through time. However, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Tao Bi , Tong Chen , Yu Shi , Xiang-Dong Zhou

Depression is a common mental health disorder that can cause consequential symptoms with continuously depressed mood that leads to emotional distress. One category of depression is Concealed Depression, where patients intentionally or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xiaohui Chen , Tie Luo

Accurately analyzing spontaneous, unconscious micro-expressions is crucial for revealing true human emotions, but this task remains challenging in wild scenarios, such as natural conversation. Existing research largely relies on datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yigui Feng , Qinglin Wang , Yang Liu , Ke Liu , Haotian Mo , Enhao Huang , Gencheng Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Jie Liu