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Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging task due to the ambiguity of expressions. The derived noisy labels significantly harm the performance in real-world scenarios. To address this issue, we present a new FER model named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui

Despite significant progress over the past few years, ambiguity is still a key challenge in Facial Expression Recognition (FER). It can lead to noisy and inconsistent annotation, which hinders the performance of deep learning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Quang Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen

Face recognition has made remarkable strides, driven by the expanding scale of datasets, advancements in various backbone and discriminative losses. However, face recognition performance is heavily affected by the label noise, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jie Zhang , Xun Gong , Zhonglin Sun

Due to the subjective crowdsourcing annotations and the inherent inter-class similarity of facial expressions, the real-world Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets usually exhibit ambiguous annotation. To simplify the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Weijie Wang , Bo Li , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

Existing facial expression recognition (FER) methods typically fine-tune a pre-trained visual encoder using discrete labels. However, this form of supervision limits to specify the emotional concept of different facial expressions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hangyu Li , Yihan Xu , Jiangchao Yao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Bo Han

Facial expression recognition relies on facial data that inherently expose identity and thus raise significant privacy concerns. Current privacy-preserving methods typically fail in realistic open-set video settings where identities are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Feng Xu , Xun Li , Lars Petersson , Yulei Sui , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Dadong Wang

Facial expression recognition (FER) aims to analyze emotional states from static images and dynamic sequences, which is pivotal in enhancing anthropomorphic communication among humans, robots, and digital avatars by leveraging AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yan Wang , Shaoqi Yan , Yang Liu , Wei Song , Jing Liu , Yang Chang , Xinji Mai , Xiping Hu , Wenqiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

The rapid advancement in deep learning over the past decade has transformed Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems, as newer methods have been proposed that outperform the existing traditional handcrafted techniques. However, such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Preyansh Agrawal , Jagat Sesh Challa , Pratik Narang

Noisy label Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is more challenging than traditional noisy label classification tasks due to the inter-class similarity and the annotation ambiguity. Recent works mainly tackle this problem by filtering out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yuhang Zhang , Chengrui Wang , Xu Ling , Weihong Deng

This paper proposes a method to use deep neural networks as end-to-end open-set classifiers. It is based on intra-class data splitting. In open-set recognition, only samples from a limited number of known classes are available for training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Patrick Schlachter , Yiwen Liao , Bin Yang

Throughout the various ages, facial expressions have become one of the universal ways of non-verbal communication. The ability to recognize facial expressions would pave the path for many novel applications. Despite the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Raghu Vamshi. N , Bharathi Raja S

In this paper, we aim to improve the performance of in-the-wild Facial Expression Recognition (FER) by exploiting semi-supervised learning. Large-scale labeled data and deep learning methods have greatly improved the performance of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jing Jiang , Weihong Deng

Recently, deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) methods have attracted considerable attention and they usually require large-scale labelled training data. Nonetheless, the publicly available facial expression databases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Yan Yan , Ying Huang , Si Chen , Chunhua Shen , Hanzi Wang

One of the most universal ways that people communicate is through facial expressions. In this paper, we take a deep dive, implementing multiple deep learning models for facial expression recognition (FER). Our goals are twofold: we aim not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Amil Khanzada , Charles Bai , Ferhat Turker Celepcikay

Recent studies on fairness have shown that Facial Expression Recognition (FER) models exhibit biases toward certain visually perceived demographic groups. However, the limited availability of human-annotated demographic labels in public FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Tangzheng Lian , Oya Celiktutan

We present a soft benchmark for calibrating facial expression recognition (FER). While prior works have focused on identifying affective states, we find that FER models are uncalibrated. This is particularly true when out-of-distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Dexter Neo , Tsuhan Chen

Understanding the facial expressions of our interlocutor is important to enrich the communication and to give it a depth that goes beyond the explicitly expressed. In fact, studying one's facial expression gives insight into their hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Rim EL Cheikh , Hélène Tran , Issam Falih , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Facial expressions play a fundamental role in human communication. Indeed, they typically reveal the real emotional status of people beyond the spoken language. Moreover, the comprehension of human affect based on visual patterns is a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Donato Cafarelli , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

The tremendous development in deep learning has led facial expression recognition (FER) to receive much attention in the past few years. Although 3D FER has an inherent edge over its 2D counterpart, work on 2D images has dominated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Faizan Farooq Khan , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has remained a challenging and interesting problem. Despite efforts made in developing various methods for FER, existing approaches traditionally lack generalizability when applied to unseen…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ali Mollahosseini , David Chan , Mohammad H. Mahoor