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Facial action unit (AU) detection in the wild is a challenging problem, due to the unconstrained variability in facial appearances and the lack of accurate annotations. Most existing methods depend on either impractical labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhiwen Shao , Jianfei Cai , Tat-Jen Cham , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) is a challenging task as the subtle changes occur over different action regions of a face. Changes in facial action regions are formed as Action Units (AUs), and AUs in micro-expressions can be seen as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Ming Dong

Extensive efforts have been devoted to recognizing facial action units (AUs). However, it is still challenging to recognize AUs from spontaneous facial displays especially when they are accompanied with speech. Different from all prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Zibo Meng , Shizhong Han , Yan Tong

Facial action unit (AU) detection remains challenging because it involves heterogeneous, AU-specific uncertainties arising at both the representation and decision stages. Recent methods have improved discriminative feature learning, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuze Li , Zhilei Liu

Recently how to introduce large amounts of unlabeled facial images in the wild into supervised Facial Action Unit (AU) detection frameworks has become a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a new AU detection framework where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ziqiao Shang , Li Yu

In this paper, we consider the problem of real-time video-based facial emotion analytics, namely, facial expression recognition, prediction of valence and arousal and detection of action unit points. We propose the novel frame-level emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Andrey V. Savchenko

Detecting action units is an important task in face analysis, especially in facial expression recognition. This is due, in part, to the idea that expressions can be decomposed into multiple action units. In this paper we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Saurabh Hinduja , Shaun Canavan , Saandeep Aathreya

Facial expression synthesis or editing has recently received increasing attention in the field of affective computing and facial expression modeling. However, most existing facial expression synthesis works are limited in paired training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Zhilei Liu , Diyi Liu , Yunpeng Wu

The rapid evolution of generative AI has increased the threat of realistic audio-visual deepfakes, demanding robust detection methods. Existing solutions primarily address unimodal (audio or visual) forgeries but struggle with multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jian Wang , Baoyuan Wu , Li Liu , Qingshan Liu

This paper proposes a supervised learning approach to jointly perform facial Action Unit (AU) localisation and intensity estimation. Contrary to previous works that try to learn an unsupervised representation of the Action Unit regions, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Enrique Sanchez-Lozano , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Michel Valstar

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

Action Units (AU) are muscular activations used to describe facial expressions. Therefore accurate AU recognition unlocks unbiaised face representation which can improve face-based affective computing applications. From a learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Gauthier Tallec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Action Units (AUs) are geometrically-based atomic facial muscle movements known to produce appearance changes at specific facial locations. Motivated by this observation we propose a novel AU modelling problem that consists of jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Ioanna Ntinou , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Michel Valstar , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

The paper explores the topic of Facial Action Unit (FAU) detection in the wild. In particular, we are interested in answering the following questions: (1) how useful are residual connections across dense blocks for face analysis? (2) how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Shreyank Jyoti , Abhinav Dhall

Facial micro-expressions are spontaneous, brief and subtle facial motions that unveil the underlying, suppressed emotions. Detecting Action Units (AUs) in micro-expressions is crucial because it yields a finer representation of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Guoying Zhao

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based approach for facial action unit detection by enhancing and cropping the regions of interest. The approach is implemented by adding two novel nets (layers): the enhancing layers and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Wei Li , Farnaz Abtahi , Zhigang Zhu , Lijun Yin

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

Facial Action Units detection (FAUs) represents a fine-grained classification problem that involves identifying different units on the human face, as defined by the Facial Action Coding System. In this paper, we present a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tu Vu , Van Thong Huynh , Soo Hyung Kim

This paper proposes an approach to learn generic multi-modal mesh surface representations using a novel scheme for fusing texture and geometric data. Our approach defines an inverse mapping between different geometric descriptors computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Bilal Taha , Munawar Hayat , Stefano Berretti , Naoufel Werghi

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