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Micro-expression recognition plays a pivotal role in understanding hidden emotions and has applications across various fields. Traditional recognition methods assume access to all training data at once, but real-world scenarios involve…

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Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) plays a crucial role in visual affective computing, aiming to infer a person's emotional state based on facial data. Scientifically, facial expressions (FEs) result from the coordinated movement of facial…

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Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an important task in computer vision and has wide applications in human-computer interaction, intelligent security, emotion analysis, and other fields. However, the limited size of FER datasets limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Yu , Zhongpeng Cai , Renda Li , Gongpeng Zhao , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

When emotions are repressed, an individual's true feelings may be revealed through micro-expressions. Consequently, micro-expressions are regarded as a genuine source of insight into an individual's authentic emotions. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Feng Liu , Bingyu Nan , Xuezhong Qian , Xiaolan Fu

Facial micro-expressions are sudden involuntary minute muscle movements which reveal true emotions that people try to conceal. Spotting a micro-expression and recognizing it is a major challenge owing to its short duration and intensity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sauradip Nag , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aishik Konwer , Partha Pratim Roy

Over the last few years, automatic facial micro-expression analysis has garnered increasing attention from experts across different disciplines because of its potential applications in various fields such as clinical diagnosis, forensic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Yee-Hui Oh , John See , Anh Cat Le Ngo , Raphael Chung-Wei Phan , Vishnu Monn Baskaran

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 is the most natural means for human beings to communicate their emotions. Most facial expression analysis studies consider the case of acted expressions. Spontaneous facial expression recognition is significantly more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Dawood Al Chanti , Alice Caplier

This study investigates the key characteristics and suitability of widely used Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets for training deep learning models. In the field of affective computing, FER is essential for interpreting human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Célia Martinie , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

The human face conveys a significant amount of information. Through facial expressions, the face is able to communicate numerous sentiments without the need for verbalisation. Visual emotion recognition has been extensively studied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani

When a person attempts to conceal an emotion, the genuine emotion is manifest as a micro-expression. Exploration of automatic facial micro-expression recognition systems is relatively new in the computer vision domain. This is due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Sze-Teng Liong , Y. S. Gan , Wei-Chuen Yau , Yen-Chang Huang , Tan Lit Ken

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ryosuke Kawamura , Hideaki Hayashi , Noriko Takemura , Hajime Nagahara

Understanding the facial expressions of our interlocutor is important to enrich the communication and to give it a depth that goes beyond the explicitly expressed. In fact, studying one's facial expression gives insight into their hidden…

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Micro-expression, for its high objectivity in emotion detection, has emerged to be a promising modality in affective computing. Recently, deep learning methods have been successfully introduced into the micro-expression recognition area.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Chongyang Wang , Min Peng , Tao Bi , Tong Chen

Facial expression perception in humans inherently relies on prior knowledge and contextual cues, contributing to efficient and flexible processing. For instance, multi-modal emotional context (such as voice color, affective text, body pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Florian Blume , Runfeng Qu , Pia Bideau , Martin Maier , Rasha Abdel Rahman , Olaf Hellwich

Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

Facial Micro-Expressions (MEs) are spontaneous, involuntary facial movements when a person experiences an emotion but deliberately or unconsciously attempts to conceal his or her genuine emotions. Recently, ME recognition has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Chengyu Guo , Jingyun Liang , Geng Zhan , Zhong Liu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

The importance of automated Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) grows the more common human-machine interactions become, which will only continue to increase dramatically with time. A common method to describe human sentiment or feeling is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Carl Norman

Emotion recognition promotes the evaluation and enhancement of Virtual Reality (VR) experiences by providing emotional feedback and enabling advanced personalization. However, facial expressions are rarely used to recognize users' emotions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Thorben Ortmann , Qi Wang , Larissa Putzar

Automated human emotion recognition from facial expressions is a well-studied problem and still remains a very challenging task. Some efficient or accurate deep learning models have been presented in the literature. However, it is quite…

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