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Fine-grained facial expression editing has long been limited by intrinsic semantic overlap. To address this, we construct the Flex Facial Expression (FFE) dataset with continuous affective annotations and establish FFE-Bench to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiabin Hua , Hengyuan Xu , Aojie Li , Wei Cheng , Gang Yu , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Semi-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach to tackle the challenge of label scarcity in facial expression recognition (FER) task. However, current state-of-the-art methods primarily focus on one side of the coin, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Fan Zhang , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jian Zhao , Xiaojiang Peng , Xuelong Li

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as an important component of human-computer interaction systems. Despite recent advancements in FER, performance often drops significantly for non-frontal facial images. We propose Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

The ever-increasing demands for intuitive interactions in Virtual Reality has triggered a boom in the realm of Facial Expression Recognition (FER). To address the limitations in existing approaches (e.g., narrow receptive fields and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yande Li , Mingjie Wang , Minglun Gong , Yonggang Lu , Li Liu

This paper proposes a self-supervised approach to learn universal facial representations from videos, that can transfer across a variety of facial analysis tasks such as Facial Attribute Recognition (FAR), Facial Expression Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhixi Cai , Shreya Ghosh , Kalin Stefanov , Abhinav Dhall , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Reza Haffari , Munawar Hayat

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild is still challenging due to uncontrolled variations in pose, occlusion, and illumination. Most existing attention-based methods primarily rely on visual appearance cues, suffering from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jiaxin Wang , Muwei Jian , Hui Yu , Junyu Dong , Yifan Xia

Face recognition, as one of the most successful applications in artificial intelligence, has been widely used in security, administration, advertising, and healthcare. However, the privacy issues of public face datasets have attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Kai Wang , Bo Zhao , Xiangyu Peng , Zheng Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Xinchao Wang , Hakan Bilen , Yang You

We address the challenge of training Vision Transformers (ViTs) when labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. We propose Semi-Supervised Masked Autoencoder (SSMAE), a framework that jointly optimizes masked image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Atik Faysal , Mohammad Rostami , Reihaneh Gh. Roshan , Nikhil Muralidhar , Huaxia Wang

Recognizing human actions from point cloud videos has attracted tremendous attention from both academia and industry due to its wide applications like automatic driving, robotics, and so on. However, current methods for point cloud action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Xiaodong Chen , Wu Liu , Xinchen Liu , Yongdong Zhang , Jungong Han , Tao Mei

Semi-supervised deep facial expression recognition (SS-DFER) has gained increasingly research interest due to the difficulty in accessing sufficient labeled data in practical settings. However, existing SS-DFER methods mainly utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sixian Ding , Xu Jiang , Zhongjing Du , Jiaqi Cui , Xinyi Zeng , Yan Wang

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild is extremely challenging due to occlusions, variant head poses, face deformation and motion blur under unconstrained conditions. Although substantial progresses have been made in automatic FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

Masked image modeling is a promising self-supervised learning method for visual data. It is typically built upon image patches with random masks, which largely ignores the variation of information density between them. The question is: Is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haijian Chen , Wendong Zhang , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

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 landmark detection, or face alignment, is a fundamental task that has been extensively studied. In this paper, we investigate a new perspective of facial landmark detection and demonstrate it leads to further notable improvement.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shengju Qian , Keqiang Sun , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Jiaya Jia

Automatically understanding emotions from visual data is a fundamental task for human behaviour understanding. While models devised for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) have demonstrated excellent performances on many datasets, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Alessandro Conti , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

How to learn discriminative video representation from unlabeled videos is challenging but crucial for video analysis. The latest attempts seek to learn a representation model by predicting the appearance contents in the masked regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen , Liangwei Chen , Changhao Li , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Event cameras offer unique advantages for facial keypoint alignment under challenging conditions, such as low light and rapid motion, due to their high temporal resolution and robustness to varying illumination. However, existing RGB facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Donghwa Kang , Junho Kim , Dongwoo Kang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) investigates how to improve illumination and produce normal-light images. The majority of existing methods improve low-light images via a global and uniform manner, without taking into account the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuhui Wu , Chen Pan , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Jiwei Wei , Chongyi Li , Heng Tao Shen

The development of deep learning models in medical image analysis is majorly limited by the lack of large-sized and well-annotated datasets. Unsupervised learning does not require labels and is more suitable for solving medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Zi'an Xu , Yin Dai , Fayu Liu , Weibing Chen , Yue Liu , Lifu Shi , Sheng Liu , Yuhang Zhou

Facial recognition is a key enabling component for emerging Internet of Things (IoT) services such as smart homes or responsive offices. Through the use of deep neural networks, facial recognition has achieved excellent performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Xuan Kan , Bowen Du , Changhao Chen , Hongkai Wen , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni , John Stankovic