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Humans often experience not just a single basic emotion at a time, but rather a blend of several emotions with varying salience. Despite the importance of such blended emotions, most video-based emotion recognition approaches are designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tim Lachmann , Alexandra Israelsson , Christina Tornberg , Teimuraz Saghinadze , Michal Balazia , Philipp Müller , Petri Laukka

Facial expressions play a crucial role in human communication serving as a powerful and impactful means to express a wide range of emotions. With advancements in artificial intelligence and computer vision, deep neural networks have emerged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yassine El Boudouri , Amine Bohi

In this paper, an effective pipeline to automatic 4D Facial Expression Recognition (4D FER) is proposed. It combines two growing but disparate ideas in Computer Vision -- computing the spatial facial deformations using tools from Riemannian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qingkai Zhen , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang , Hassen Drira , Boulbaba Ben Amor , Mohamed Daoudi

Much of the work on automatic facial expression recognition relies on databases containing a certain number of emotion classes and their exaggerated facial configurations (generally six prototypical facial expressions), based on Ekman's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Wenjing Yan , Shan Li , Chengtao Que , JiQuan Pei , Weihong Deng

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Facial expression recognition is a crucial component in enhancing human-computer interaction and developing emotion-aware systems. Real-time detection and interpretation of facial expressions have become increasingly important for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Talha Enes Koksal , Abdurrahman Gumus

Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) aims to bridge the affective gap between visual content and human emotional responses. Despite its promise, progress in this field remains limited by the lack of open-source and interpretable datasets. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yijie Guo , Dexiang Hong , Weidong Chen , Zihan She , Cheng Ye , Xiaojun Chang , Zhendong Mao

Micro-expression (ME) recognition plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, particularly in public security and psychotherapy. Recently, traditional methods rely excessively on machine learning design and the recognition rate is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Jinming Liu , Ke Li , Baolin Song , Li Zhao

This paper discusses the benefits of incorporating multimodal data for improving latent emotion recognition accuracy, focusing on micro-expression (ME) and physiological signals (PS). The proposed approach presents a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Liangfei Zhang , Yifei Qian , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Anthony Zhu

This paper presents a novel approach to processing multimodal data for dynamic emotion recognition, named as the Multimodal Masked Autoencoder for Dynamic Emotion Recognition (MultiMAE-DER). The MultiMAE-DER leverages the closely correlated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Peihao Xiang , Chaohao Lin , Kaida Wu , Ou Bai

In this paper, we present a sparsity-aware deep network for automatic 4D facial expression recognition (FER). Given 4D data, we first propose a novel augmentation method to combat the data limitation problem for deep learning. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Muzammil Behzad , Nhat Vo , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Existing 3D facial emotion modeling have been constrained by limited emotion classes and insufficient datasets. This paper introduces "Emo3D", an extensive "Text-Image-Expression dataset" spanning a wide spectrum of human emotions, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mahshid Dehghani , Amirahmad Shafiee , Ali Shafiei , Neda Fallah , Farahmand Alizadeh , Mohammad Mehdi Gholinejad , Hamid Behroozi , Jafar Habibi , Ehsaneddin Asgari

Emotion recognition is involved in several real-world applications. With an increase in available modalities, automatic understanding of emotions is being performed more accurately. The success in Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Riccardo Franceschini , Enrico Fini , Cigdem Beyan , Alessandro Conti , Federica Arrigoni , Elisa Ricci

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

Automated affective computing in the wild setting is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing annotated databases of facial expressions in the wild are small and mostly cover discrete emotions (aka the categorical model). There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ali Mollahosseini , Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

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

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging problem, due to transient and subtle micro-expression (ME) actions. Most existing methods depend on hand-crafted features, key frames like onset, apex, and offset frames, or deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Feiran Li , Yong Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Facial expression plays an important role in understanding human emotions. Most recently, deep learning based methods have shown promising for facial expression recognition. However, the performance of the current state-of-the-art facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Ping Liu , Yunchao Wei , Zibo Meng , Weihong Deng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yi Yang

In this work, we present a lightweight and privacy-preserving Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) framework designed for deployment on edge devices. To demonstrate framework's versatility, our implementation uses three modalities - speech,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rémi Grzeczkowicz , Eric Soriano , Ali Janati , Miyu Zhang , Gerard Comas-Quiles , Victor Carballo Araruna , Aneesh Jonelagadda

Micro-expression recognition (MER) aims to recognize the short and subtle facial movements from the Micro-expression (ME) video clips, which reveal real emotions. Recent MER methods mostly only utilize special frames from ME video clips or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Haihong Hao , Shuo Wang , Huixia Ben , Yanbin Hao , Yansong Wang , Weiwei Wang