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Many attempts have been made at estimating discrete emotions (calmness, anxiety, boredom, surprise, anger) and continuous emotional measures commonly used in psychology, namely `valence' (The pleasantness of the emotion being displayed) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Karthik Subramanian , Saurav Singh , Justin Namba , Jamison Heard , Christopher Kanan , Ferat Sahin

This paper is a brief introduction to our submission to the seven basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild Competition held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Hanyu Liu , Jiabei Zeng , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Among human affective behavior research, facial expression recognition research is improving in performance along with the development of deep learning. However, for improved performance, not only past images but also future images should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Geesung Oh , Euiseok Jeong , Sejoon Lim

In this paper, we present our contribution to ABAW facial expression challenge. We report the proposed system and the official challenge results adhering to the challenge protocol. Using end-to-end deep learning and benefiting from transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Denis Dresvyanskiy , Elena Ryumina , Heysem Kaya , Maxim Markitantov , Alexey Karpov , Wolfgang Minker

This paper presents a light-weight and accurate deep neural model for audiovisual emotion recognition. To design this model, the authors followed a philosophy of simplicity, drastically limiting the number of parameters to learn from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Valentin Vielzeuf , Corentin Kervadec , Stéphane Pateux , Alexis Lechervy , Frédéric Jurie

There is a growing interest in affective computing research nowadays given its crucial role in bridging humans with computers. This progress has been recently accelerated due to the emergence of bigger data. One recent advance in this field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Decky Aspandi , Adria Mallol-Ragolta , Björn Schuller , Xavier Binefa

Video-based Emotional Reaction Intensity (ERI) estimation measures the intensity of subjects' reactions to stimuli along several emotional dimensions from videos of the subject as they view the stimuli. We propose a multi-modal architecture…

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

Recognising expressive behaviours in face videos is a long-standing challenge in Affective Computing. Despite significant advancements in recent years, it still remains a challenge to build a robust and reliable system for naturalistic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mani Kumar Tellamekala , Shashank Jaiswal , Thomas Smith , Timur Alamev , Gary McKeown , Anthony Brown , Michel Valstar

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

The field of Automatic Facial Expression Analysis has grown rapidly in recent years. However, despite progress in new approaches as well as benchmarking efforts, most evaluations still focus on either posed expressions, near-frontal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Michel F. Valstar , Enrique Sánchez-Lozano , Jeffrey F. Cohn , László A. Jeni , Jeffrey M. Girard , Zheng Zhang , Lijun Yin , Maja Pantic

The integration of information across multiple modalities and across time is a promising way to enhance the emotion recognition performance of affective systems. Much previous work has focused on instantaneous emotion recognition. The 2018…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-07 Didan Deng , Yuqian Zhou , Jimin Pi , Bertram E. Shi

While sentiment analysis has advanced from sentence to aspect-level, i.e., the identification of concrete terms related to a sentiment, the equivalent field of Aspect-based Emotion Analysis (ABEA) is faced with dataset bottlenecks and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Christina Zorenböhmer , Sebastian Schmidt , Bernd Resch

Canonical emotions, such as happy, sad, and fearful, are easy to understand and annotate. However, emotions are often compound, e.g. happily surprised, and can be mapped to the action units (AUs) used for expressing emotions, and trivially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Reni Paskaleva , Mykyta Holubakha , Andela Ilic , Saman Motamed , Luc Van Gool , Danda Paudel

We present our contribution to the 7th ABAW challenge at ECCV 2024, by utilizing a Dual-Direction Attention Mixed Feature Network (DDAMFN) for multitask facial expression recognition, we achieve results far beyond the proposed baseline for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Josep Cabacas-Maso , Elena Ortega-Beltrán , Ismael Benito-Altamirano , Carles Ventura

In affective neuroscience and emotion-aware AI, understanding how complex auditory stimuli drive emotion arousal dynamics remains unresolved. This study introduces a computational framework to model the brain's encoding of naturalistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Guandong Pan , Yaqian Yang , Shi Chen , Xin Wang , Longzhao Liu , Hongwei Zheng , Shaoting Tang

The EmoPain 2020 Challenge is the first international competition aimed at creating a uniform platform for the comparison of machine learning and multimedia processing methods of automatic chronic pain assessment from human expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Joy O. Egede , Siyang Song , Temitayo A. Olugbade , Chongyang Wang , Amanda Williams , Hongying Meng , Min Aung , Nicholas D. Lane , Michel Valstar , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

In recent years, Affective Computing and its applications have become a fast-growing research topic. Furthermore, the rise of Deep Learning has introduced significant improvements in the emotion recognition system compared to classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Joaquim Comas , Decky Aspandi , Xavier Binefa

Physiological signals that provide the objective repression of human affective states are attracted increasing attention in the emotion recognition field. However, the single signal is difficult to obtain completely and accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jing Zhang , Yong Zhang , Suhua Zhan , Cheng Cheng

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Media (MuSe) 2020 is a Challenge-based Workshop focusing on the tasks of sentiment recognition, as well as emotion-target engagement and trustworthiness detection by means of more comprehensively…

Facial emotion recognition has been typically cast as a single-label classification problem of one out of six prototypical emotions. However, that is an oversimplification that is unsuitable for representing the multifaceted spectrum of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Joao Baptista Cardia Neto , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti