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Facial Expression Recognition (FER) suffers from data uncertainties caused by ambiguous facial images and annotators' subjectiveness, resulting in excursive semantic and feature covariate shifting problem. Existing works usually correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yangtao Du , Qingqing Wang , Yujie Xiong

How to learn a universal facial representation that boosts all face analysis tasks? This paper takes one step toward this goal. In this paper, we study the transfer performance of pre-trained models on face analysis tasks and introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Yinglin Zheng , Hao Yang , Ting Zhang , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Yangyu Huang , Lu Yuan , Dong Chen , Ming Zeng , Fang Wen

Accurate facial estimation is crucial for realistic digital human animation, and ARKit blendshape coefficients offer an interpretable representation by mapping facial motions to semantic animation controls. However, learning high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zejian Kang , Xuanyang Xu , Wentao Yang , Kai Zheng , Yuanchen Fei , Hongyuan Zou , Hui Shan , Shuo Yang , Xiangru Huang

Compound Expression Recognition (CER) plays a crucial role in interpersonal interactions. Due to the existence of Compound Expressions , human emotional expressions are complex, requiring consideration of both local and global facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jun Yu , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

An automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) model with Adaboost face detector, feature selection based on manifold learning and synergetic prototype based classifier has been proposed. Improved feature selection method and proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Chendi Wang

Human emotions involve basic and compound facial expressions. However, current research on facial expression recognition (FER) mainly focuses on basic expressions, and thus fails to address the diversity of human emotions in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xinyi Zou , Yan Yan , Jing-Hao Xue , Si Chen , Hanzi Wang

Emotion being a subjective thing, leveraging knowledge and science behind labeled data and extracting the components that constitute it, has been a challenging problem in the industry for many years. With the evolution of deep learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Prudhvi Raj Dachapally

Facial micro-expressions recognition has attracted much attention recently. Micro-expressions have the characteristics of short duration and low intensity, and it is difficult to train a high-performance classifier with the limited number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yanxin Song , Jianzong Wang , Tianbo Wu , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

Facial expression recognition (FER) has received increasing interest in computer vision. We propose the TransFER model which can learn rich relation-aware local representations. It mainly consists of three components: Multi-Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Fanglei Xue , Qiangchang Wang , Guodong Guo

Domain shift poses a significant challenge in Cross-Domain Facial Expression Recognition (CD-FER) due to the distribution variation across different domains. Current works mainly focus on learning domain-invariant features through global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yuefang Gao , Yuhao Xie , Zeke Zexi Hu , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin

Contrastive learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance in various self-supervised learning tasks and even outperforms its supervised counterpart. Despite its empirical success, theoretical understanding of the superiority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Wenlong Ji , Zhun Deng , Ryumei Nakada , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

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

Effective feature selection is essential for high-dimensional data analysis and machine learning. Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) aims to simultaneously cluster data and identify the most discriminative features. Most existing UFS…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Feng Yu , MD Saifur Rahman Mazumder , Ying Su , Oscar Contreras Velasco

With recent developments in smart technologies, there has been a growing focus on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for affective computing to further enhance the user experience through emotion recognition. Typically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Kyle Ross , Paul Hungler , Ali Etemad

In this paper, we investigate the use of adversarial learning for unsupervised adaptation to unseen recording conditions, more specifically, single microphone far-field speech. We adapt neural networks based acoustic models trained with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-31 Pavel Denisov , Ngoc Thang Vu , Marc Ferras Font

This study introduces LRDif, a novel diffusion-based framework designed specifically for facial expression recognition (FER) within the context of under-display cameras (UDC). To address the inherent challenges posed by UDC's image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

We present an approach for unsupervised training of CNNs in order to learn discriminative face representations. We mine supervised training data by noting that multiple faces in the same video frame must belong to different persons and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Samyak Datta , Gaurav Sharma , C. V. Jawahar

A novel Identity-Free conditional Generative Adversarial Network (IF-GAN) was proposed for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) to explicitly reduce high inter-subject variations caused by identity-related facial attributes, e.g., age, race,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jie Cai , Zibo Meng , Ahmed Shehab Khan , Zhiyuan Li , James O'Reilly , Shizhong Han , Yan Tong

Facial expression recognition (FER) is vital for human-computer interaction and emotion analysis, yet recognizing expressions in low-resolution images remains challenging. This paper introduces a practical method called Dynamic Resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Songpan Wang , Xu Li , Tianxiang Jiang , Yuanlun Xie

Contrastive pretraining can substantially increase model generalisation and downstream performance. However, the quality of the learned representations is highly dependent on the data augmentation strategy applied to generate positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mélanie Roschewitz , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tian Xia , Galvin Khara , Ben Glocker