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Expression recognition in in-the-wild video data remains challenging due to substantial variations in facial appearance, background conditions, audio noise, and the inherently dynamic nature of human affect. Relying on a single modality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Junhyeong Byeon , Jeongyeol Kim , Sejoon Lim

We present our contribution to the 8th ABAW challenge at CVPR 2025, where we tackle valence-arousal estimation, emotion recognition, and facial action unit detection as three independent challenges. Our approach leverages the well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Josep Cabacas-Maso , Elena Ortega-Beltrán , Ismael Benito-Altamirano , Carles Ventura

Micro-expression (ME) action units (Micro-AUs) provide objective clues for fine-grained genuine emotion analysis. Most existing Micro-AU detection methods learn AU features from the whole facial image/video, which conflicts with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jinsheng Wei , Fengzhou Guo , Yante Li , Haoyu Chen , Guanming Lu , Guoying Zhao

Micro-expressions are brief spontaneous facial expressions that appear on a face when a person conceals an emotion, making them different to normal facial expressions in subtlety and duration. Currently, emotion classes within the CASME II…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Adrian K. Davison , Walied Merghani , Moi Hoon Yap

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

Micro-expressions are hard to spot due to fleeting and involuntary moments of facial muscles. Interpretation of micro emotions from video clips is a challenging task. In this paper we propose an affective-motion imaging that cumulates rapid…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

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

In this report, we present our solution for the Action Unit (AU) Detection Challenge, in 8th Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild. In order to achieve robust and accurate classification of facial action unit in the wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jun Yu , Yunxiang Zhang , Xilong Lu , Yang Zheng , Yongqi Wang , Lingsi Zhu

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a crucial task in affective computing, but its conventional focus on the seven basic emotions limits its applicability to the complex and expanding emotional spectrum. To address the issue of new and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Niki Maria Foteinopoulou , Ioannis Patras

Affective computing has been largely limited in terms of available data resources. The need to collect and annotate diverse in-the-wild datasets has become apparent with the rise of deep learning models, as the default approach to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Human emotions analysis has been the focus of many studies, especially in the field of Affective Computing, and is important for many applications, e.g. human-computer intelligent interaction, stress analysis, interactive games, animations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Mohammad Rami Koujan , Luma Alharbawee , Giorgos Giannakakis , Nicolas Pugeault , Anastasios Roussos

In this paper, we present our advanced solutions to the two sub-challenges of Affective Behavior Analysis in the wild (ABAW) 2023: the Emotional Reaction Intensity (ERI) Estimation Challenge and Expression (Expr) Classification Challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jia Li , Yin Chen , Xuesong Zhang , Jiantao Nie , Ziqiang Li , Yangchen Yu , Yan Zhang , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in applying deep learning techniques to animal behavior recognition, particularly leveraging pre-trained visual language models, such as CLIP, due to their remarkable generalization capacity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Enmin Zhong , Carlos R. del-Blanco , Daniel Berjón , Fernando Jaureguizar , Narciso García

Facial expression recognition(FER) in the wild is crucial for building reliable human-computer interactive systems. However, current FER systems fail to perform well under various natural and un-controlled conditions. This report presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Darshan Gera , S Balasubramanian

Facial action unit detection has emerged as an important task within facial expression analysis, aimed at detecting specific pre-defined, objective facial expressions, such as lip tightening and cheek raising. This paper presents our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yufeng Yin , Minh Tran , Di Chang , Xinrui Wang , Mohammad Soleymani

Understanding human affect from facial behavior requires not only accurate recognition but also structured reasoning over the latent dependencies that drive muscle activations and their expressive outcomes. Although Action Units (AUs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Guanyu Hu , Tangzheng Lian , Dimitrios Kollias , Oya Celiktutan , Xinyu Yang

The Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) 2022 Competition gives Affective Computing a large promotion. In this paper, we present our method of AU challenge in this Competition. We use improved IResnet100 as backbone. Then we train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Wenqiang Jiang , Yannan Wu , Fengsheng Qiao , Liyu Meng , Yuanyuan Deng , Chuanhe Liu

Incremental learning is a complex process due to potential catastrophic forgetting of old tasks when learning new ones. This is mainly due to transient features that do not fit from task to task. In this paper, we focus on complex emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Thibault Geoffroy , Gauthier Gerspacher , Lionel Prevost