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Facial Micro-expression Recognition (MER) distinguishes the underlying emotional states of spontaneous subtle facialexpressions. Automatic MER is challenging because that 1) the intensity of subtle facial muscle movement is extremely lowand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wei Peng , Xiaopeng Hong , Yingyue Xu , Guoying Zhao

Micro-expressions (MEs) are subtle, transient facial changes with very low intensity, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, yet they reveal a person genuine emotion. They are of great value in lie detection, behavioral analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Thi Bich Phuong Man , Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging task, due to the transience, subtlety, and dynamics of micro-expressions (MEs). Most existing methods resort to hand-crafted features or deep networks, in which the former often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Fan Zhang , Xuehuai Shi , Canlin Li , Lizhuang Ma , Dit-yan Yeung

Micro-expressions are involuntary facial movements that cannot be consciously controlled, conveying subtle cues with substantial real-world applications. The analysis of micro-expressions generally involves two main tasks: spotting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Bochao Zou , Zizheng Guo , Wenfeng Qin , Xin Li , Kangsheng Wang , Huimin Ma

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

As a spontaneous expression of emotion on face, micro-expression reveals the underlying emotion that cannot be controlled by human. In micro-expression, facial movement is transient and sparsely localized through time. However, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Tao Bi , Tong Chen , Yu Shi , Xiang-Dong Zhou

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, low-intensity, often localized facial expressions. They could reveal genuine emotions individuals may attempt to conceal, valuable in contexts like criminal interrogation and psychological counseling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jingting Li , Yu Qian , Lin Zhao , Su-Jing Wang

Facial expression spotting is the preliminary step for micro- and macro-expression analysis. The task of reliably spotting such expressions in video sequences is currently unsolved. The current best systems depend upon optical flow methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Chuin Hong Yap , Moi Hoon Yap , Adrian K. Davison , Connah Kendrick , Jingting Li , Sujing Wang , Ryan Cunningham

Facial micro-expressions are sudden involuntary minute muscle movements which reveal true emotions that people try to conceal. Spotting a micro-expression and recognizing it is a major challenge owing to its short duration and intensity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sauradip Nag , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aishik Konwer , Partha Pratim Roy

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

Despite recent interest and advances in facial micro-expression research, there is still plenty room for improvement in terms of micro-expression recognition. Conventional feature extraction approaches for micro-expression video consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Sze-Teng Liong , John See , KokSheik Wong , Raphael C. -W. Phan

Micro-expressions (MEs) are spontaneous, unconscious facial expressions that have promising applications in various fields such as psychotherapy and national security. Thus, micro-expression recognition (MER) has attracted more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ruolin Li , Lu Wang , Tingting Yang , Lisheng Xu , Bingyang Ma , Yongchun Li , Hongchao Wei

Most micro- and macro-expression spotting methods in untrimmed videos suffer from the burden of video-wise collection and frame-wise annotation. Weakly-supervised expression spotting (WES) based on video-level labels can potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wang-Wang Yu , Kai-Fu Yang , Hong-Mei Yan , Yong-Jie Li

This paper presents baseline results for the Third Facial Micro-Expression Grand Challenge (MEGC 2020). Both macro- and micro-expression intervals in CAS(ME)$^2$ and SAMM Long Videos are spotted by employing the method of Main Directional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Ying He , Su-Jing Wang , Jingting Li , Moi Hoon Yap

Facial Micro-Expressions (MEs) are spontaneous, involuntary facial movements when a person experiences an emotion but deliberately or unconsciously attempts to conceal his or her genuine emotions. Recently, ME recognition has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Chengyu Guo , Jingyun Liang , Geng Zhan , Zhong Liu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging task due to the subtle and fleeting nature of micro-expressions. Traditional input modalities, such as Apex Frame, Optical Flow, and Dynamic Image, often fail to adequately capture these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Unlike prevalent facial expressions, micro expressions have subtle, involuntary muscle movements which are short-lived in nature. These minute muscle movements reflect true emotions of a person. Due to the short duration and low intensity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh , Subrahmanyam Murala

Facial expression spotting, identifying periods where facial expressions occur in a video, is a significant yet challenging task in facial expression analysis. The issues of irrelevant facial movements and the challenge of detecting subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yicheng Deng , Hideaki Hayashi , Hajime Nagahara

Correctly perceiving micro-expression is difficult since micro-expression is an involuntary, repressed, and subtle facial expression, and efficiently revealing the subtle movement changes and capturing the significant segments in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiateng Liu , Wenming Zheng , Yuan Zong

Micro-expressions (MEs), brief and low-intensity facial movements revealing concealed emotions, are crucial for affective computing. Despite notable progress in ME recognition, existing methods are largely confined to discrete emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sirui Zhao , Zhengye Zhang , Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Shukang Yin , Chaoyou Fu , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen