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Facial expression recognition is a crucial component in enhancing human-computer interaction and developing emotion-aware systems. Real-time detection and interpretation of facial expressions have become increasingly important for various…

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Facial pain expression is an important modality for assessing pain, especially when the patient's verbal ability to communicate is impaired. The facial muscle-based action units (AUs), which are defined by the Facial Action Coding System…

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Micro-expressions are brief and subtle facial movements that convey nuanced affective information but often remain imperceptible during natural social interaction. Although prior research has primarily focused on computational recognition…

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We examine the utility of implicit user behavioral signals captured using low-cost, off-the-shelf devices for anonymous gender and emotion recognition. A user study designed to examine male and female sensitivity to facial emotions confirms…

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Depression is a severe mental disorder, and reliable identification plays a critical role in early intervention and treatment. Multimodal depression detection aims to improve diagnostic performance by jointly modeling complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chongxiao Wang , Junjie Liang , Peng Cao , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane

Depression is a widespread mental disorder that affects millions worldwide. While automated depression assessment shows promise, most studies rely on limited or non-clinically validated data, and often prioritize complex model design over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zhuang Chen , Guanqun Bi , Wen Zhang , Jiawei Hu , Aoyun Wang , Xiyao Xiao , Kun Feng , Minlie Huang

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary, low-intensity, and short-duration facial expressions that often reveal an individual's genuine thoughts and emotions. Most existing ME analysis methods rely on window-level classification with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zizheng Guo , Bochao Zou , Yinuo Jia , Xiangyu Li , Huimin Ma

Emotion recognition using digital image processing is a multifarious task because facial emotions depend on warped facial features as well as on gender, age, and culture. Furthermore, there are several factors such as varied illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Aasma Aslam , Babar Hussian

This paper proposes a new depression detection system based on LLMs that is both interpretable and interactive. It not only provides a diagnosis, but also diagnostic evidence and personalized recommendations based on natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Wei Qin , Zetong Chen , Lei Wang , Yunshi Lan , Weijieying Ren , Richang Hong

Micro-expression has emerged as a promising modality in affective computing due to its high objectivity in emotion detection. Despite the higher recognition accuracy provided by the deep learning models, there are still significant scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

Recognizing the patient's emotions using deep learning techniques has attracted significant attention recently due to technological advancements. Automatically identifying the emotions can help build smart healthcare centers that can detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Marwan Dhuheir , Abdullatif Albaseer , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Mohamed Abdallah , Mounir Hamdi

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 are brief and subtle facial expressions that go on and off the face in a fraction of a second. This kind of facial expressions usually occurs in high stake situations and is considered to reflect a human's real intent.…

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Depression is one of the most prevalent and debilitating mental health conditions worldwide, frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated. The proliferation of social media platforms provides a rich source of naturalistic linguistic signals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Giorgia Gulino , Manuel Petrucci

In recent years, extensive research has emerged in affective computing on topics like automatic emotion recognition and determining the signals that characterize individual emotions. Much less studied, however, is expressiveness, or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Victoria Lin , Jeffrey M. Girard , Louis-Philippe Morency

Social network plays an important role in propagating people's viewpoints, emotions, thoughts, and fears. Notably, following lockdown periods during the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue of depression has garnered increasing attention, with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yan Shi , Yao Tian , Chengwei Tong , Chunyan Zhu , Qianqian Li , Mengzhu Zhang , Wei Zhao , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

In this work, we explore the relationship between depression and manifestations of happiness in social media. While the majority of works surrounding depression focus on symptoms, psychological research shows that there is a strong link…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Ana-Maria Bucur , Adrian Cosma , Liviu P. Dinu

In-vehicle emotion recognition underpins adaptive driver-assistance systems and, ultimately, occupant safety. However, practical deployment is hindered by (i) modality fragility - poor lighting and occlusions degrade vision-based methods;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Baran Can Gül , Suraksha Nadig , Stefanos Tziampazis , Nasser Jazdi , Michael Weyrich

Facial emotional recognition is one of the essential tools used by recognition psychology to diagnose patients. Face and facial emotional recognition are areas where machine learning is excelling. Facial Emotion Recognition in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Nitesh Banskota , Abeer Alsadoon , P. W. C. Prasad , Ahmed Dawoud , Tarik A. Rashid , Omar Hisham Alsadoon

Emotion has an important role in daily life, as it helps people better communicate with and understand each other more efficiently. Facial expressions can be classified into 7 categories: angry, disgust, fear, happy, neutral, sad and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Shaoyuan Xu , Yang Cheng , Qian Lin , Jan P. Allebach