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Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) application is frequently associated with privacy concerns as it often acquires and transmits speech data at the client-side to remote cloud platforms for further processing. These speech data can reveal not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

Facial expression recognition (FER) plays a significant role in the ubiquitous application of computer vision. We revisit this problem with a new perspective on whether it can acquire useful representations that improve FER performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Jiawei Mao , Guangyi Zhao , Yuanqi Chang , Xuesong Yin , Xiaogang Peng , Rui Xu

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) suffers from data uncertainties caused by ambiguous facial images and annotators' subjectiveness, resulting in excursive semantic and feature covariate shifting problem. Existing works usually correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yangtao Du , Qingqing Wang , Yujie Xiong

We present an approach that combines automatic features learned by convolutional neural networks (CNN) and handcrafted features computed by the bag-of-visual-words (BOVW) model in order to achieve state-of-the-art results in facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Marius Popescu

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a classification task that points to face variants. Hence, there are certain affinity features between facial expressions, receiving little attention in the FER literature. Convolution padding, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiawei Shi , Songhao Zhu , Zhiwei Liang

Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is a key task in affective computing, enabling applications in human-computer interaction, e-learning, healthcare, and safety systems. Despite advances in deep learning, FER remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ahsan Farabi , Israt Khandaker , Ibrahim Khalil Shanto , Md Abdul Ahad Minhaz , Tanisha Zaman

Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging task due to label ambiguity caused by the subjective nature of facial expressions and noisy samples. Additionally, class imbalance, which is common in real-world datasets, further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 JunGyu Lee , Yeji Choi , Haksub Kim , Ig-Jae Kim , Gi Pyo Nam

People can innately recognize human facial expressions in unnatural forms, such as when depicted on the unusual faces drawn in cartoons or when applied to an animal's features. However, current machine learning algorithms struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Michael Stettler , Alexander Lappe , Nick Taubert , Martin Giese

In this paper, we describe our algorithmic approach, which was used for submissions in the fifth Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW 2017) group-level emotion recognition sub-challenge. We extracted feature vectors of detected faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Alexandr G. Rassadin , Alexey S. Gruzdev , Andrey V. Savchenko

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is a task that estimates emotions from facial expression video sequences. For practical applications, accurately recognizing ambiguous facial expressions -- frequently encountered in in-the-wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ryosuke Kawamura , Hideaki Hayashi , Shunsuke Otake , Noriko Takemura , Hajime Nagahara

Previous methods for dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) in the wild are mainly based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), whose local operations ignore the long-range dependencies in videos. Transformer-based methods for DFER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

Current works formulate facial action unit (AU) recognition as a supervised learning problem, requiring fully AU-labeled facial images during training. It is challenging if not impossible to provide AU annotations for large numbers of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Shangfei Wang , Yanan Chang , Guozhu Peng , Bowen Pan

Facial expressions of emotion are a major channel in our daily communications, and it has been subject of intense research in recent years. To automatically infer facial expressions, convolutional neural network based approaches has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Bita Houshmand , Naimul Khan

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) holds significant importance in human-computer interactions. Existing cross-domain FER methods often transfer knowledge solely from a single labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, neglecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yuxiang Yang , Lu Wen , Xinyi Zeng , Yuanyuan Xu , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

This article presents our results for the eighth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) competition. We combine facial emotional descriptors extracted by pre-trained models, namely, our EmotiEffLib library, with acoustic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Andrey V. Savchenko

The in-the-wild affective behavior analysis has been an important study. In this paper, we submit our solutions for the 5th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW), which includes V-A Estimation, Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Peng Zou , Rui Wang , Kehua Wen , Yasi Peng , Xiao Sun

This paper presents a novel visual-language model called DFER-CLIP, which is based on the CLIP model and designed for in-the-wild Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER). Specifically, the proposed DFER-CLIP consists of a visual part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Zengqun Zhao , Ioannis Patras

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to automatically identify and understand human emotional states by integrating information from various modalities. However, the scarcity of annotated multimodal data significantly hinders the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhixian Zhao , Haifeng Chen , Xi Li , Dongmei Jiang , Lei Xie

A novel Identity-Free conditional Generative Adversarial Network (IF-GAN) was proposed for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) to explicitly reduce high inter-subject variations caused by identity-related facial attributes, e.g., age, race,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jie Cai , Zibo Meng , Ahmed Shehab Khan , Zhiyuan Li , James O'Reilly , Shizhong Han , Yan Tong