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The ever-increasing demands for intuitive interactions in Virtual Reality has triggered a boom in the realm of Facial Expression Recognition (FER). To address the limitations in existing approaches (e.g., narrow receptive fields and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yande Li , Mingjie Wang , Minglun Gong , Yonggang Lu , Li Liu

Automatically understanding emotions from visual data is a fundamental task for human behaviour understanding. While models devised for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) have demonstrated excellent performances on many datasets, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Alessandro Conti , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an important task in computer vision and has wide applications in human-computer interaction, intelligent security, emotion analysis, and other fields. However, the limited size of FER datasets limits…

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

With the transition of facial expression recognition (FER) from laboratory-controlled to challenging in-the-wild conditions and the recent success of deep learning techniques in various fields, deep neural networks have increasingly been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Shan Li , Weihong Deng

In the context of artificial intelligence, the inherent human attribute of engaging in logical reasoning to facilitate decision-making is mirrored by the concept of explainability, which pertains to the ability of a model to provide a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Francesco Di Luzio , Antonello Rosato , Massimo Panella

Facial expression recognition (FER) has always been a challenging issue in computer vision. The different expressions of emotion and uncontrolled environmental factors lead to inconsistencies in the complexity of FER and variability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Tianyuan Chang , Guihua Wen , Yang Hu , JiaJiong Ma

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

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

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad Hadi Kiapour , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Ali A. Kiaei

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

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a fine-grained visual understanding task where reliable predictions require reasoning over localized and meaningful facial cues. Recent vision--language models (VLMs) enable natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Haobo Lin , Tianyi Bai , Jiajun Zhang , Xuanhao Chang , Sheng Lu , Fangming Gu , Zengjie Hu , Wentao Zhang

Facial expression recognition has been an active research area over the past few decades, and it is still challenging due to the high intra-class variation. Traditional approaches for this problem rely on hand-crafted features such as SIFT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi

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

As affective robots become integral in human life, these agents must be able to fairly evaluate human affective expressions without discriminating against specific demographic groups. Identifying bias in Machine Learning (ML) systems as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Ozgur Kara , Nikhil Churamani , Hatice Gunes

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

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

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has been a challenging task for decades. Many of the existing works use hand-crafted features such as LBP, HOG, LPQ, and Histogram of Optical Flow (HOF) combined with classifiers such as Support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Deep CNNs have been pushing the frontier of visual recognition over past years. Besides recognition accuracy, strong demands in understanding deep CNNs in the research community motivate developments of tools to dissect pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Bangjie Yin , Luan Tran , Haoxiang Li , Xiaohui Shen , Xiaoming Liu

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

Facial Expression Recognition is a vital research topic in most fields ranging from artificial intelligence and gaming to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Psychology. This paper proposes a hybrid model for Facial Expression recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ozioma Collins Oguine , Kanyifeechukwu Jane Oguine , Hashim Ibrahim Bisallah , Daniel Ofuani