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The intensity estimation of facial action units (AUs) is challenging due to subtle changes in the person's facial appearance. Previous approaches mainly rely on probabilistic models or predefined rules for modeling co-occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yingruo Fan , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li

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

Despite their continued popularity, categorical approaches to affect recognition have limitations, especially in real-life situations. Dimensional models of affect offer important advantages for the recognition of subtle expressions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Vassilios Vonikakis , Stefan Winkler

Recognizing human emotion/expressions automatically is quite an expected ability for intelligent robotics, as it can promote better communication and cooperation with humans. Current deep-learning-based algorithms may achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tao Pu , Tianshui Chen , Yuan Xie , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

Automatic facial behavior analysis has a long history of studies in the intersection of computer vision, physiology and psychology. However it is only recently, with the collection of large-scale datasets and powerful machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Automatic machine-based Facial Expression Analysis (FEA) has made substantial progress in the past few decades driven by its importance for applications in psychology, security, health, entertainment and human computer interaction. The vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Ligang Zhang , Brijesh Verma , Dian Tjondronegoro , Vinod Chandran

Detecting facial action units (AU) is one of the fundamental steps in automatic recognition of facial expression of emotions and cognitive states. Though there have been a variety of approaches proposed for this task, most of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihee Lee , Ognjen Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic , Maja Pantic

The field of Automatic Facial Expression Analysis has grown rapidly in recent years. However, despite progress in new approaches as well as benchmarking efforts, most evaluations still focus on either posed expressions, near-frontal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Michel F. Valstar , Enrique Sánchez-Lozano , Jeffrey F. Cohn , László A. Jeni , Jeffrey M. Girard , Zheng Zhang , Lijun Yin , Maja Pantic

Facial action unit (AU) intensity plays a pivotal role in quantifying fine-grained expression behaviors, which is an effective condition for facial expression manipulation. However, publicly available datasets containing intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Shiwei Jin , Zhen Wang , Lei Wang , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana Wilkie

Facial action unit (AU) intensity is an index to describe all visually discernible facial movements. Most existing methods learn intensity estimator with limited AU data, while they lack generalization ability out of the dataset. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Xinhui Song , Tianyang Shi , Zunlei Feng , Mingli Song , Jackie Lin , Chuanjie Lin , Changjie Fan , Yi Yuan

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

The rapid advancement of deepfake technologies has sparked widespread public concern, particularly as face forgery poses a serious threat to public information security. However, the unknown and diverse forgery techniques, varied facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhengchao Huang , Bin Xia , Zicheng Lin , Zhun Mou , Wenming Yang , Jiaya Jia

The detection of micro-expression Action Units (AUs) is a formidable challenge in affective computing, pivotal for decoding subtle, involuntary human emotions. While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate profound reasoning abilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhishu Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Bo Zhao , Yong Xu , Zitong Yu

This paper discusses a novel method for Facial Expression Recognition System which performs facial expression analysis in a near real time from a live web cam feed. Primary objectives were to get results in a near real time with light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Saumil Srivastava

Affective Behavior Analysis aims to develop emotionally intelligent technology that can recognize and respond to human emotions. To advance this field, the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition holds the Multi-Task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chen Liu , Wei Zhang , Feng Qiu , Lincheng Li , Xin Yu

The diversity of facial shapes and motions among persons is one of the greatest challenges for automatic analysis of facial expressions. In this paper, we propose a feature describing expression intensity over time, while being invariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Maren Awiszus , Stella Graßhof , Felix Kuhnke , Jörn Ostermann

Previous approaches to model and analyze facial expression analysis use three different techniques: facial action units, geometric features and graph based modelling. However, previous approaches have treated these technique separately.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Mehdi Ghayoumi , Arvind K Bansal

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

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