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Facial action unit (AU) detection is a fundamental block for objective facial expression analysis. Supervised learning approaches require a large amount of manual labeling which is costly. The limited labeled data are also not diverse in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liupei Lu , Yufeng Yin , Yuming Gu , Yizhen Wu , Pratusha Prasad , Yajie Zhao , Mohammad Soleymani

Despite the success of deep neural networks on facial action unit (AU) detection, better performance depends on a large number of training images with accurate AU annotations. However, labeling AU is time-consuming, expensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yong Li , Shiguang Shan

This paper proposes a supervised learning approach to jointly perform facial Action Unit (AU) localisation and intensity estimation. Contrary to previous works that try to learn an unsupervised representation of the Action Unit regions, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Enrique Sanchez-Lozano , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Michel Valstar

Facial action unit (AU) detection remains a challenging task, due to the subtlety, dynamics, and diversity of AUs. Recently, the prevailing techniques of self-attention and causal inference have been introduced to AU detection. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhiwen Shao , Hancheng Zhu , Yong Zhou , Xiang Xiang , Bing Liu , Rui Yao , Lizhuang Ma

Facial Action Units (AUs) are essential for conveying psychological states and emotional expressions. While automatic AU detection systems leveraging deep learning have progressed, they often overfit to specific datasets and individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yong Li , Yi Ren , Xuesong Niu , Yi Ding , Xiu-Shen Wei , Cuntai Guan

Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) aims to expand the applicability of Face Recognition (FR) systems to challenging scenarios, enabling the matching of face images across different domains, such as matching thermal images to visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown impressive results for task of facial expression synthesis. The most successful architecture is StarGAN, that conditions GANs generation process with images of a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Albert Pumarola , Antonio Agudo , Aleix M. Martinez , Alberto Sanfeliu , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

This paper presents a novel approach in a rarely studied area of computer vision: Human interaction recognition in still images. We explore whether the facial regions and their spatial configurations contribute to the recognition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Gokhan Tanisik , Cemil Zalluhoglu , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) has been used by numerous studies to investigate the links between facial behavior and mental health. The laborious and costly process of FACS coding has motivated the development of machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Evangelos Sariyanidi , Lisa Yankowitz , Robert T. Schultz , John D. Herrington , Birkan Tunc , Jeffrey Cohn

Facial action units (AUs) play an indispensable role in human emotion analysis. We observe that although AU-based high-level emotion analysis is urgently needed by real-world applications, frame-level AU results provided by previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yingjie Chen , Jiarui Zhang , Tao Wang , Yun Liang

Facial feature detection from facial images has attracted great attention in the field of computer vision. It is a nontrivial task since the appearance and shape of the face tend to change under different conditions. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yue Wu , Ziheng Wang , Qiang Ji

Facial action unit (AU) detection and facial expression (FE) recognition can be jointly viewed as affective facial behavior tasks, representing fine-grained muscular activations and coarse-grained holistic affective states, respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jia Li , Yu Zhang , Yin Chen , Zhenzhen Hu , Yong Li , Richang Hong , Shiguang Shan , Meng Wang

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

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection has gained significant attention as it enables the breakdown of complex facial expressions into individual muscle movements. In this paper, we revisit two fundamental factors in AU detection: diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Mang Ning , Albert Ali Salah , Itir Onal Ertugrul

Patient pain can be detected highly reliably from facial expressions using a set of facial muscle-based action units (AUs) defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A key characteristic of facial expression of pain is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana J. Wilkie

Reasoning human object interactions is a core problem in human-centric scene understanding and detecting such relations poses a unique challenge to vision systems due to large variations in human-object configurations, multiple co-occurring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Bo Wan , Desen Zhou , Yongfei Liu , Rongjie Li , Xuming He

Generative models have surged in popularity recently due to their ability to produce high-quality images and video. However, steering these models to produce images with specific attributes and precise control remains challenging. Humans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tuomas Varanka , Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Mengting Wei , Hanwei Kung , Nicu Sebe , Guoying Zhao

Detecting action units is an important task in face analysis, especially in facial expression recognition. This is due, in part, to the idea that expressions can be decomposed into multiple action units. In this paper we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Saurabh Hinduja , Shaun Canavan , Saandeep Aathreya

Robust cross-subject emotion recognition from multimodal physiological signals remains a challenging problem, primarily due to modality heterogeneity and inter-subject distribution shift. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jiahao Tang , Youjun Li , Yangxuan Zheng , Xiangting Fan , Siyuan Lu , Nuo Zhang , Zi-Gang Huang

Automatic detection of facial Action Units (AUs) allows for objective facial expression analysis. Due to the high cost of AU labeling and the limited size of existing benchmarks, previous AU detection methods tend to overfit the dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yufeng Yin , Di Chang , Guoxian Song , Shen Sang , Tiancheng Zhi , Jing Liu , Linjie Luo , Mohammad Soleymani