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We describe a deep learning based method for estimating 3D facial expression coefficients. Unlike previous work, our process does not relay on facial landmark detection methods as a proxy step. Recent methods have shown that a CNN can be…
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We discuss MET, a learning-based algorithm proposed for perceiving a patient's level of engagement during telehealth sessions. We leverage latent vectors corresponding to Affective and Cognitive features frequently used in psychology…
Visual engagement in social media platforms comprises interactions with photo posts including comments, shares, and likes. In this paper, we leverage such visual engagement clues as supervisory signals for representation learning. However,…
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