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The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) has been used by numerous studies to investigate the links between facial behavior and mental health. The laborious and costly process of FACS coding has motivated the development of machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Evangelos Sariyanidi , Lisa Yankowitz , Robert T. Schultz , John D. Herrington , Birkan Tunc , Jeffrey Cohn

The activations of Facial Action Units (AUs) mutually influence one another. While the relationship between a pair of AUs can be complex and unique, existing approaches fail to specifically and explicitly represent such cues for each pair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Cheng Luo , Siyang Song , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen , Hatice Gunes

Facial action units (AUs) are essential to decode human facial expressions. Researchers have focused on training AU detectors with a variety of features and classifiers. However, several issues remain. These are spatial representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Wen-Sheng Chu , Fernando De la Torre , Jeffrey F. Cohn

Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. To alleviate this problem, a large amount of efforts has been dedicated to exploiting various weakly supervised methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jingwei Yan , Jingjing Wang , Qiang Li , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

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

This paper describes an approach to the facial action unit (AU) detection. In this work, we present our submission to the Field Affective Behavior Analysis (ABAW) 2021 competition. The proposed method uses the pre-trained JAA model as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Chenggong Zhang , Juan Song , Qingyang Zhang , Weilong Dong , Ruomeng Ding , Zhilei Liu

Action Unit (AU) Detection is the branch of affective computing that aims at recognizing unitary facial muscular movements. It is key to unlock unbiased computational face representations and has therefore aroused great interest in the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Gauthier Tallec , Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Facial action unit (AU) recognition is a crucial task for facial expressions analysis and has attracted extensive attention in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. Existing works have either focused on designing or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Guanbin Li , Xin Zhu , Yirui Zeng , Qing Wang , Liang Lin

This paper presents our Facial Action Units (AUs) detection submission to the fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild Competition (ABAW). Our approach consists of three main modules: (i) a pre-trained facial representation encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zihan Wang , Siyang Song , Cheng Luo , Yuzhi Zhou , Shiling Wu , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen

Facial Action Units (AUs) represent a set of facial muscular activities and various combinations of AUs can represent a wide range of emotions. AU recognition is often used in many applications, including marketing, healthcare, education,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Junya Saito , Xiaoyu Mi , Akiyoshi Uchida , Sachihiro Youoku , Takahisa Yamamoto , Kentaro Murase , Osafumi Nakayama

Facial Action Units (AUs) detection is a cornerstone of objective facial expression analysis and a critical focus in affective computing. Despite its importance, AU detection faces significant challenges, such as the high cost of AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Bohao Xing , Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Heikki Kälviäinen

This paper describes an approach to the facial action units detections. The involved action units (AU) include AU1 (Inner Brow Raiser), AU2 (Outer Brow Raiser), AU4 (Brow Lowerer), AU6 (Cheek Raise), AU12 (Lip Corner Puller), AU15 (Lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Xianpeng Ji , Yu Ding , Lincheng Li , Yu Chen , Changjie Fan

Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) plays a crucial role in visual affective computing, aiming to infer a person's emotional state based on facial data. Scientifically, facial expressions (FEs) result from the coordinated movement of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhuozhao Hu , Kaishen Yuan , Xin Liu , Zitong Yu , Yuan Zong , Jingang Shi , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Expressions and facial action units (AUs) are two levels of facial behavior descriptors. Expression auxiliary information has been widely used to improve the AU detection performance. However, most existing expression representations can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Hao Zeng , Wei Chen , Zhigang Deng , Yu Ding

Visual attention has been extensively studied for learning fine-grained features in both facial expression recognition (FER) and Action Unit (AU) detection. A broad range of previous research has explored how to use attention modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Xiaotian Li , Zhihua Li , Huiyuan Yang , Geran Zhao , Lijun Yin

Human affective behavior analysis plays a vital role in human-computer interaction (HCI) systems. In this paper, we introduce our submission to the CVPR 2023 Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Yu , Renda Li , Zhongpeng Cai , Gongpeng Zhao , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Understanding human affect from facial behavior requires not only accurate recognition but also structured reasoning over the latent dependencies that drive muscle activations and their expressive outcomes. Although Action Units (AUs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Guanyu Hu , Tangzheng Lian , Dimitrios Kollias , Oya Celiktutan , Xinyu Yang

Facial action unit (AU) detection, aiming to classify AU present in the facial image, has long suffered from insufficient AU annotations. In this paper, we aim to mitigate this data scarcity issue by learning AU representations from a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yong Li , Shiguang Shan

Facial action unit (AU) detection and facial expression (FE) recognition can be jointly viewed as affective facial behavior tasks, representing fine-grained muscular activations and coarse-grained holistic affective states, respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jia Li , Yu Zhang , Yin Chen , Zhenzhen Hu , Yong Li , Richang Hong , Shiguang Shan , Meng Wang

Facial action unit (AU) detection and face alignment are two highly correlated tasks since facial landmarks can provide precise AU locations to facilitate the extraction of meaningful local features for AU detection. Most existing AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zhiwen Shao , Zhilei Liu , Jianfei Cai , Lizhuang Ma