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Video-based emotion recognition is a challenging task because it requires to distinguish the small deformations of the human face that represent emotions, while being invariant to stronger visual differences due to different identities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Masih Aminbeidokhti , Marco Pedersoli , Patrick Cardinal , Eric Granger

The goal of emotional brain state classification on functional MRI (fMRI) data is to recognize brain activity patterns related to specific emotion tasks performed by subjects during an experiment. Distinguishing emotional brain states from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Maxime Tchibozo , Donggeun Kim , Zijing Wang , Xiaofu He

In the domain of human-computer interaction, accurately recognizing and interpreting human emotions is crucial yet challenging due to the complexity and subtlety of emotional expressions. This study explores the potential for detecting a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiehui Jia , Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang

Humans often experience not just a single basic emotion at a time, but rather a blend of several emotions with varying salience. Despite the importance of such blended emotions, most video-based emotion recognition approaches are designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tim Lachmann , Alexandra Israelsson , Christina Tornberg , Teimuraz Saghinadze , Michal Balazia , Philipp Müller , Petri Laukka

We study the statistical properties of facial behaviour altered by the regulation of brain arousal in the clinical domain of psychiatry. The underlying mechanism is linked to the empirical interpretation of the vigilance continuum as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Christian S. Pilz , Benjamin Clemens , Inka C. Hiss , Christoph Weiss , Ulrich Canzler , Jarek Krajewski , Ute Habel , Steffen Leonhardt

In Affective Computing, a key challenge lies in reliably linking subjective emotional experiences with objective physiological markers. This preliminary study addresses the issue of reproducibility by identifying physiological features from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Andrea Gargano , Jasin Machkour , Mimma Nardelli , Enzo Pasquale Scilingo , Michael Muma

In recent times, there has been significant interest in the machine recognition of human emotions, due to the suite of applications to which this knowledge can be applied. A number of different modalities, such as speech or facial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Jonny O'Dwyer , Ronan Flynn , Niall Murray

The continuous improvement of human-computer interaction technology makes it possible to compute emotions. In this paper, we introduce our submission to the CVPR 2023 Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). Sentiment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tao Shu , Xinke Wang , Ruotong Wang , Chuang Chen , Yixin Zhang , Xiao Sun

Emotion classification through EEG signals plays a significant role in psychology, neuroscience, and human-computer interaction. This paper addresses the challenge of mapping human emotions using EEG data in the Mapping Human Emotions…

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task when neural network is applied to pattern recognition. Most of the current recognition research is based on single source facial data, which generally has the disadvantages of low accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yi Han , Xubin Wang , Zhengyu Lu

Understanding emotions and expressions is a task of interest across multiple disciplines, especially for improving user experiences. Contrary to the common perception, it has been shown that emotions are not discrete entities but instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Niklas Wagner , Felix Mätzler , Samed R. Vossberg , Helen Schneider , Svetlana Pavlitska , J. Marius Zöllner

The study proposes and tests a technique for automated emotion recognition through mouth detection via Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), meant to be applied for supporting people with health disorders with communication skills issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Giulio Biondi , Valentina Franzoni , Osvaldo Gervasi , Damiano Perri

Despite significant recent advances in the field of head pose estimation and facial expression recognition, raising the cognitive level when analysing human activity presents serious challenges to current concepts. Motivated by the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Grigorios Kalliatakis , Nikolaos Vidakis , Georgios Triantafyllidis

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

This report describes a multi-modal multi-task ($M^3$T) approach underlying our submission to the valence-arousal estimation track of the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Challenge, held in conjunction with the IEEE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Yuan-Hang Zhang , Rulin Huang , Jiabei Zeng , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

While machine learning approaches to visual emotion recognition offer great promise, current methods consider training and testing models on small scale datasets covering limited visual emotion concepts. Our analysis identifies an important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Rameswar Panda , Jianming Zhang , Haoxiang Li , Joon-Young Lee , Xin Lu , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

We explore the representational space of emotions by combining methods from different academic fields. Cognitive science has proposed appraisal theory as a view on human emotion with previous research showing how human-rated abstract event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Andres Campero , Bjarke Felbo , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Rebecca Saxe

In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to simultaneously analyze facial movements and several peripheral physiological signals to decode individualized affective experiences under positive and negative emotional contexts, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yu Yin , Mohsen Nabian , Miolin Fan , ChunAn Chou , Maria Gendron , Sarah Ostadabbas

Emotion recognition from facial videos enables non-contact inference of human emotional states. Although facial expressions are widely used cues, they cannot fully reflect intrinsic affective states. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiwen Luo , Jia Li , Rencheng Song , Yu Liu , Juan Cheng

Emotion recognition from facial images is a crucial task in human-computer interaction, enabling machines to learn human emotions through facial expressions. Previous studies have shown that facial images can be used to train deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Israel Juárez-Jiménez , Tiffany Guadalupe Martínez Paredes , Jesús García-Ramírez , Eric Ramos Aguilar