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Facial expressions are combinations of basic components called Action Units (AU). Recognizing AUs is key for developing general facial expression analysis. In recent years, most efforts in automatic AU recognition have been dedicated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Ciprian A. Corneanu , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

This article presents our results for the 10th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) competition. For frame-wise facial emotion understanding tasks (frame-wise facial expression recognition, valence-arousal estimation, action unit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Andrey V. Savchenko , Kseniia Tsypliakova

Facial expression recognition is a challenging classification task that holds broad application prospects in the field of human-computer interaction. This paper aims to introduce the method we will adopt in the 8th Affective and Behavioral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jun Yu , Yang Zheng , Lei Wang , Yongqi Wang , Shengfan Xu

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) plays a crucial role in human affective analysis and has been widely applied in computer vision tasks such as human-computer interaction and psychological assessment. The 8th Affective Behavior Analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 JunGyu Lee , Kunyoung Lee , Haesol Park , Ig-Jae Kim , Gi Pyo Nam

Attention mechanism has recently attracted increasing attentions in the field of facial action unit (AU) detection. By finding the region of interest of each AU with the attention mechanism, AU-related local features can be captured. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Zhiwen Shao , Zhilei Liu , Jianfei Cai , Yunsheng Wu , Lizhuang Ma

We address the Ambivalence/Hesitancy (A/H) Video Recognition Challenge at the 10th ABAW Competition (CVPR 2026). We propose a divergence-based multimodal fusion that explicitly measures cross-modal conflict between visual, audio, and…

In this paper, we present our solution and experiment result for the Multi-Task Learning Challenge of the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild(ABAW7) Competition. This challenge consists of three tasks: action unit detection, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xiaodong Li , Wenchao Du , Hongyu Yang

It is challenging to recognize facial action unit (AU) from spontaneous facial displays, especially when they are accompanied by speech. The major reason is that the information is extracted from a single source, i.e., the visual channel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Zibo Meng , Shizhong Han , Ping Liu , Yan Tong

The in-the-wild affective behavior analysis has been an important study. In this paper, we submit our solutions for the 5th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW), which includes V-A Estimation, Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Peng Zou , Rui Wang , Kehua Wen , Yasi Peng , Xiao Sun

In this article, the results of our team for the fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition are presented. The usage of the pre-trained convolutional networks from the EmotiEffNet family for frame-level feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andrey V. Savchenko

Analyzing human affect is vital for human-computer interaction systems. Most methods are developed in restricted scenarios which are not practical for in-the-wild settings. The Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) 2021 Contest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yue Jin , Tianqing Zheng , Chao Gao , Guoqiang Xu

As a fine-grained and local expression behavior measurement, facial action unit (FAU) analysis (e.g., detection and intensity estimation) has been documented for its time-consuming, labor-intensive, and error-prone annotation. Thus a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bowen Ma , Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Yu Ding , Zeng Zhao , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu

Action Unit (AU) detection becomes essential for facial analysis. Many proposed approaches face challenging problems in dealing with the alignments of different face regions, in the effective fusion of temporal information, and in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Wei Li , Farnaz Abitahi , Zhigang Zhu

Facial action unit (AU) detection is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. Recent works on AU detection with self-supervised learning have emerged to address this problem, aiming to learn meaningful AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Juan Song , Zhilei Liu

Facial Action Units (AUs) are of great significance in the realm of affective computing. In this paper, we propose AU-LLaVA, the first unified AU recognition framework based on the Large Language Model (LLM). AU-LLaVA consists of a visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Guohong Hu , Xing Lan , Hanyu Jiang , Jiayi Lyu , Jian Xue

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection has gained significant attention as it enables the breakdown of complex facial expressions into individual muscle movements. In this paper, we revisit two fundamental factors in AU detection: diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Mang Ning , Albert Ali Salah , Itir Onal Ertugrul

Human behavior understanding requires looking at minute details in the large context of a scene containing multiple input modalities. It is necessary as it allows the design of more human-like machines. While transformer approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Tanay Agrawal , Michal Balazia , Philipp Müller , François Brémond

With the rapid progress of generative models, the current challenge in face forgery detection is how to effectively detect realistic manipulated faces from different unseen domains. Though previous studies show that pre-trained Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Anwei Luo , Rizhao Cai , Chenqi Kong , Yakun Ju , Xiangui Kang , Jiwu Huang , Alex C. Kot

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad Hadi Kiapour , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Ali A. Kiaei

Patient pain can be detected highly reliably from facial expressions using a set of facial muscle-based action units (AUs) defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A key characteristic of facial expression of pain is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana J. Wilkie